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The weather is tough for Turkey, both on the issue of the decision to open Varosia Beach in Cyprus and on the repeated challenges of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The attitude of the President of Turkey clearly shows that there is no continuity and coherence in the de-escalation requested by Athens and personally Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to have an honest discussion with Ankara, there is no sense of trust and therefore there can be no honesty and sincerity. . Ankara is obviously hindering. “They want to digest the decision of the European Council,” a government source told SKAI. “Greece is not in a hurry, the fleet with Oruch Reyes is gone, everyone is waiting for Turkey,” he stressed.
According to the SKAI correspondent in Turkey, Manolis Kostidis, despite his communication with Angela Merkel, Tayyip Erdogan faced a number of challenges in just a few hours. He attacked Emanuel Macron again, calling him “arrogant” and “provocative”, on the occasion of his statements about “Islamic autonomy” in France, announced that he would open the beach of Varos on Thursday in view of the “presidential elections” in the Territories Busy, he decided to start the first tests of S-400 anti-aircraft missiles at Sinope, despite strong annoyance from the United States and NATO, and again referred to the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, stating that it was a move “creating a new era on the world political scene. ”
With these movements, the Turkish president is said to be trying to avoid dialogue with Greece, with a binding agenda that does not meet his maximalist goals, he is trying to show that he controls the game in the Mediterranean and his stance on Varosia, but movement in the field of the broader political scene.
According to SKAI Brussels correspondent Giannis Paleologos, commenting on the Ankara provocation in Varos, Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Vereli said that “this measure does not contribute to de-escalation in the region.” Cyprus previously circulated an informal document to the Committee of Permanent Representatives in Brussels, warning that the decision to open Varosia beach definitely reinforces the prospect of solving the Cyprus problem.
Ankara’s decision to open part of Varos justifies the position of Athens and Nicosia to request references to UN resolutions on Cyprus in the text of the European Council conclusions on Turkey.
Source: skai.gr
