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Very strange news has been broadcast in the last minutes by the Turkish media amid the escalation of tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, which, however, is very likely to be part of the propaganda orgy in Ankara.
According to the Turkish news network haberler.com, the Turkish armed forces began transporting tanks from the Syrian border to the Greek border on Saturday afternoon.
According to the same source, approximately two truck convoys left the Turkish-Syrian border carrying 40 tanks with their final destination in Edirne. The tanks will be transported from the port of Alexandretta by train to Edirne.
“From the Hatay, Reihanli and Kumlu areas, on the Syrian border, the tanks were loaded onto trucks and left for Edirne,” says the article, which is reproduced by various Turkish media.
In fact, photos of the alleged military convoy bound for the Greek-Turkish border are published.
“Revenge” for Charles de Gaulle’s mission
Turkish media commented that “the mission of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the Greek soldiers at Kastelorizo was the last straw.”
#Turkey deploy tanks to #Greece Syrian border border, claims Turkish private news agency İHA.
About 40 tanks. #Erdogan #Greece_Turkey #Syria pic.twitter.com/4QMo8b3YLQ
– Nikhil Choudhary (@NikhilCh_) September 5, 2020
Rhetoric of war
It should be noted that in recent days the official Turkish press has indulged in a barrage of inflammatory publications, with the typical example of the conservative Islamist Yeni Safak.
On the occasion of the photos that came to light with Greek soldiers landing in Kastelorizo and citing the demilitarization of the islands foreseen in old agreements, the newspaper wrote that Turkey now has the right to a “military intervention” on the island.
Yeni φάafak even referred to statements by Turkish international law professors and military analysts, according to which Kastelorizo should be demilitarized.
Speaking to the newspaper, the professor and chairman of the Department of International Law at the University of Marmara, Selami Kuran, argued that Greece since the 1960s has proceeded to the illegal militarization of 16 Aegean islands, in violation of international treaties. The professor noted that if this condition has been violated, “the question of the validity of these conditions arises” and that Turkey should raise the issue in international forums.
Professor Kuran added that if Turkey considers that there is a threat to its national security, it can invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter and take all such “necessary military measures” against Greece.
#NewSafakCuff
Our newspaper dated 01.09.2020
first page: THE RIGHT TO INTERFERENCE HAS BEEN Https: //t.co/V9v5OJU0Hh pic.twitter.com/7HYsMMngZf– New dawn (@yenisafak) September 1, 2020
Erdogan’s war chants
It is observed that the Turkish president continues to fire weapons. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Saturday afternoon, again referred to the events in the Eastern Mediterranean, in his speech at the inauguration of a hospital.
The Turkish president characteristically said: “You will soon understand that Turkey has the political, economic and military power to tear down the illegal maps that have been imposed on it.”
He continued: “Either they will understand it in the language of politics and diplomacy, or they will understand it based on their painful experiences on the battlefield.”
This year we inaugurated the Göztepe Municipal Hospital, the seventh hospital that we put into service in Istanbul. https://t.co/1Hw6PT4vnm
– Recep Tayyip Erdogan (@RTErdogan) September 5, 2020
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