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Reuters PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Thursday that his country is acting with “wisdom” towards the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean, despite the behavior of Greece, which he described as “childish.”
The Turkish president said: “Despite the provocations from the other side (Greece) and their childish behavior in the eastern Mediterranean, we act wisely because we are a great country and from the right.”
He added that “Turkey will not allow anyone to isolate it within its coasts, even though it has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean.”
Erdogan added: “Our counterparts in the eastern Mediterranean have realized that the language of threat does not work and that Turkey will not be subjected to blackmail and bandits.”
The Turkish president indicated that his country will continue to defend its rights and the rights of “Turkey’s Northern Cyprus”, and that the calls to sit at the dialogue table to resolve the existing crisis in the eastern Mediterranean come from Ankara’s insistence on defend your rights in that region.
Erdogan said: “From the beginning, we have said that the solution to the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean is through dialogue, and we acted wisely despite provocations from the other side, and we will continue to show the necessary awareness of this crisis.”
He stressed that Turkey “will never back down” in defending the rights of its people at home and abroad, and that his country’s new strategy to combat terrorism is “to attack their hiding places wherever they are, whether within. or out of the country. “
Erdogan’s remarks came during his speech at a ceremony to distribute state medals to “relatives of martyrs and wounded in wars and counterterrorism operations” at the presidential compound in the capital, Ankara.
Source: “Anatolia”
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