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It was not possible to postpone these maneuvers, because that would explain Turkey’s weakness, not flexibility or goodwill. Former Turkish naval commander Jihad Yaji said, in an interview with the “Hurriyet” newspaper, that delaying the maneuvers, if it had happened, would have created a problem and sent messages that are not in the interest of Turkey. Therefore, the maneuvers are aimed at maintaining the military readiness of the Turkish army and Turkish Cyprus to deal with any emerging situation. It is a message of confidence for the friend and a message of terror for the enemy. Despite all the crunching of weapons, the mutual mobilization and the display of French aircraft carriers, the tension, in Yaji’s view, will not amount to the outbreak of a war between Turkey and Greece. Yayji says that Turkey is way ahead of Greece. The Turkish army fought many battles on more than one front as it is a combat army, unlike the Greek army, which has not fought any war for decades. Yayji says that Greece, in light of the imbalance, cannot think of any war, because no war will be in the eastern Mediterranean, but in the Greek islands, and that will cause great damage to Greece. He says that if the maneuvers had taken place a year ago, they would not have been described as incendiary, and assures the Turkish people that the Mediterranean region “is like a crescent of white breast milk to us.”
Retired General Eray Guchlwer believes that military maneuvers are basically one of the tools of power that support the “political policies” of countries (including the Turkish press showing images of dozens of Turkish tanks moving from Reyhanli on the border of Idlib to Adrianople towards the Greek border). It says Turkey is waging a serious geopolitical battle in the extreme. It considers that Turkey is drilling for oil and natural gas in accordance with international law. But some countries bordering the Mediterranean, such as Greece, Egypt, and Israel, and non-riparian countries such as France, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, are working to have a place in this geopolitical battle. And Turkey, in its endeavors to preserve its interests and rights in the energy field, is determined to do so and will not hesitate to use military force to protect its “political policies with an energy dimension”. Guchlwer called the maneuvers with Turkish Cyprus the strongest response yet to France’s import of its largest aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, into the eastern Mediterranean. He said that the show of military force and Turkey’s use of Turkish Cyprus as a base of operations guarantee Turkey a strategic advantage. These maneuvers are an important message from Turkey and Turkish Cyprus to Greece, Greek Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, France, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Guchlauer describes the recent maneuvers that Russia carried out near areas of tension in the Mediterranean as a tacit recognition of Russia’s rights in those areas. He says that the interests of Russia besieged by the West require a rapprochement with Turkey along the Libya – Eastern Mediterranean – Cyprus – Syria line. In the next period, new areas of cooperation between Turkey and Russia could open up.
Retired General Jim Gordenes believes that, in terms of military capability, Greece is not the country Turkey is headed for. But Greece and Greek Cyprus want to besiege Turkey, which is transforming itself from a regional actor into a regional power, and is being used by the Euro-Atlantic system, and this is the essence of the matter. But Gordenes refuses to limit the conflict with Greece to its energy dimension. He says that the West, Europe and the “Atlantic” have finally shown the famous map called “Sevilla” (Seville) that limits Turkey to Anatolia. Although the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Joseph Borrell, denounced it, it is reported in most European forums and EU websites. It is a map that narrows the maritime borders of Turkey in the Mediterranean and the Aegean. The map was prepared by the Spanish Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero of the University of Seville, for which the map was attributed to the university. It is a map that the European Union adopted as its pure economic borders after Greek Cyprus demarcated the borders of its exclusive economic zone, since Greek Cyprus is a member of this union. According to this map, the borders of the exclusive economic zone of Greece start from the island of “Mays” off the southern coast of Turkey in the Gulf of Antalya, reaching the depth of the eastern Mediterranean. With this map, Turkish territorial waters are limited to six miles, while most of the maritime area remains in the hands of Greece. Gordins says this is not just an energy map, but a geopolitical map meant to strangle Turkey and isolate it from the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas.
Greece and Cyprus are being used to besiege Turkey, which is transforming itself from a regional player into a regional power.
It is expected that, in the event of a war with Greece, it will lose all the benefits it has gained from Turkey in recent decades. She says Greece is aware of this, but has agreed to play the sordid role the West has assigned it by ripping Turkey apart and portraying it as a country that violates international law. Gordenes compared the situation in the Mediterranean and Aegean to a marathon, and Turkey will never abandon this race. Gordenes excludes the possibility of Greece resorting to war, because it is in a difficult economic situation and its debts are multiplying, while Turkey plays the role of superpower.
Regarding the letters that Turkey has against Greece, except for military power, Gordenes says that there are many, and no paper from them has yet been used. Borrell says that if Turkey does not meet its calm conditions with Greece until September 25, it will impose a boycott. Then Turkey could prevent Greece and Greek Cyprus from passing through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. It would also consider Greece’s arming of many islands off Turkey to be a violation of the Lausanne Agreement and a threat to Turkey. Greece will complain to the European Union, NATO and the United Nations. And the moment Turkey puts its hand on the trigger against the incitement of Greece, France and the European Union, the “Atlantic” will collapse. Gordenes believes that the collapse of the “Atlantic” is a huge gain for Russia and China, and a loss for the United States and the European Union. As Gordenes recalls that 65 percent of Russia’s foreign trade passes through the Strait and the Aegean Sea, Russia is obliged and in its best interest to cooperate with Turkey.
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