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“Erdogan is pushing us off the cliff and believes that in the end it will be very difficult for us to give in to what he asks so that we do not all fall off the cliff together.” notes Admiral ea Alexandros Diakopoulos at protothema.gr.
“As long as Turkey has decided that for all this conflict situation it has created it must take something tangible, it will not stop, unless something happens that forces it to stop,” the former National Security adviser stressed, exclusively to protothema.gr.
When asked what Tayyip Erdogan’s objective is with the departure of Oruc Reis, Rear Admiral Diakopoulos answers: questions. “
After October 22, the Turks will launch a new Navtex “west of the 28th meridian, closer to Rhodes, Crete or Karpathos”.
It warns that the new crisis with Oruc Reis creates an immediate “political and national danger” for Greece and predicts that under the illegal Navtex of October 11, Oruc Reis “will run out of 10 days and then launch a new Navtex west of the 28th meridian. and even closer, possibly, to Rhodes, or to Crete, or to Karpathos. ”
“Turkey’s regime is becoming more and more authoritarian, obviously the hardliners have the upper hand and Erdogan is following Bahceli’s foreign policy,” said the former national security adviser.
“A seismic survey vessel with extended cables means it is surveying”
Following the Turkish Energy Minister’s statements that the Oruc Reis has initiated seismic investigations, we asked Admiral Diakopoulos if what Fatih Donmez claims is true and if the Turkish fleet is actually carrying out seismic work.
“It was 35 days and now another 10 days. How likely do you think it is that I will do nothing?” He reverses the question and continues: “Everyone thinks that the Turkish ship that is there is investigating. A seismic research ship with extended cables means that you are investigating. Investigating in your minds. “
“If you don’t show that this is so important to you that you’re ready to use your tough power to defend it, no one else will,” Rear Admiral Diakopoulos said. When asked by protothema.gr how he would advise Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to handle the new crisis with Oruc Reis if he were still the national security adviser, Rear Admiral Diakopoulos responds: “You must say and say that so far, this is our red line. Because if you give the signal that you will tolerate everything, you will suffer everything. “
In conclusion, Rear Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos expresses his conviction that “the two countries will stop before the clash, but first we must give the signal that we are ready for the clash.”
Hear from Rear Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos on the protothema.gr podcast:
