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The highlights of Minister Çavuşoğlu’s speech are as follows;
Athens could not find the support it hoped for. Until now, they couldn’t find it in the European Union. Now they began to give positive messages about the return of Oruç Reis to the port. Recent posts are a bit more moderate.
– If they start to establish prerequisites, we have preconditions and they have to meet them.
– We sincerely make good faith proposals to resolve the problems with Greece through diplomacy. But Greece did not accept it.
– After the periodic maintenance of the boat, it returns to its area of activity. Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha returned to the region after its regular maintenance was performed and it was doing its research. The process of performing these maintenance does not mean that the activity is compromised.
In the past, we gave diplomacy a chance, but Greece failed.
– We take the ship out of the area to the port for periodic maintenance. The president said that this process can be evaluated as an opportunity by Greece. I said so myself.
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– The Greek Cypriot side and Greece have signed agreements with Egypt and Israel for years and have continued their unilateral activities. We made serious warnings. They then tried to completely exclude Turkey and Cyprus does not have the rights of the Turkish people, they say.
– After we started our activities in the region, their voices began to be heard.
– There must be an environment in which everyone can benefit from the riches of the Eastern Mediterranean.
– We have taken these steps because they have ignored our rights. After we took concrete measures, tensions started to rise, they took the EU behind.
– Why don’t we sit down and talk to Greece? You must be able to sit where you are right and defend your rights to the best of your ability.
– If they do not take advantage of the opportunity, we will continue with our activities after the maintenance is finished.
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– Merkel is definitely more objective and constructive than France. Trying to achieve results. They admit that we are right.
THE PURPOSE OF FRANCE
– Merkel always showed the most decisive position on migration. She will also bring immigrant children from Lesbos to her country. She took the bravest steps. In the EU, it has a different attitude than in France.
– France’s problem is: 1) Play the leadership of the EU 2) Play the leadership of the Middle East. You assign yourself a role in each topic.
– (France) supported Haftar in Libya, gave weapons but ultimately failed. France wants to increase these tensions and sell arms, and Libya too. Companies that sell weapons in the city of a ministry in France.
– France has its own agenda and agenda. But we also see that Germany did not join France.
– I mean Borrell is also extremely objective.
– (Navtex’te published yesterday in Lausanne, emphasis on violation by Turkey) In accordance with the Treaty of 1947 by the Treaty of Lausanne and disarmed one of the island of Chios. Greece has announced that it will conduct an exercise here by posting Navtex. We have also published a report from Navtex indicating that this is against the agreement. So this is a warning that it is against international law and that they should not.
‘THEY BRING HEAVY WEAPONS TO THE ISLANDS’
They don’t tell the truth, they have to be honest. We need to be honest to solve these problems. They have to give up the map of Seville. When we bring this to the agenda in meetings, they say ‘we don’t want to negotiate with you, this is a national issue.’ It is not an honest approach to say that we did not arm once. They said they were arming the islands in 1974. Anyway, the attack occurred on these islands from Turkey. If the military movements will not help Turkey, it will come out armed here. If it says ‘we didn’t put it together’ here on the subject that everyone knows about, then there is nothing to do.
They tried to tell us the islands that we gave together with us and the agreements of the past as a great success, but unfortunately we see it.
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Greece later said it was a routine change. There are heavy weapons there. There are weapons that don’t fit the deal. After all, we sometimes take our precautions when taking action that requires this violation with ships and airplanes. After the Kardak crisis regarding the actual structure of the islands, there have been no changes in the status and violation of the islands.
WE CANNOT SOLVE THIS UNLESS THIS MAP IS AT HOME
This is what we said the last time we addressed the European Parliament. Does anyone of you accept such a map for your country? They say you are definitely a rug. In fact, some even say that we are lawyers, never say that this is nonsense. But we say that this is the basis of Greece’s objection today. The European Union said that we do not recognize this map. But so far, the reason for Greece’s lawsuit is on this map. They said, would you temporarily send the ship to the trouble-free zone? We wonder what they mean. The triangular area. They say stay on the road. How do you say that, brother? Do you know what that means. It means accepting the absurd map of Seville. Greece should explain that it does not accept this map. We cannot solve this while this map is inactive. No negotiation. Even if you are negotiating, you cannot get results.
‘GREECE BRINGS REFRINES TO THE EU’
Turkey was really a very important player, a game as disruptive as the quarterback. There is no exclusion. There have been many EU meetings and Greece was unable to make the decisions it wanted. France was left alone with the Greeks and Greece. When we look at the countries, they don’t want a sanction for Turkey, especially Germany. But ultimately, if they have to choose, they choose Greece with the solidarity of its members. Together with the Greek Cypriot side of Greece, “if you do not support our decisions, we will veto the Belarusian bill.” They take the EU hostage. We have to be realistic, we have to prepare for the worst case scenario, but I do not expect a decision on the penalty.
Borell said, “Are you ready to meet Dendias?” He said, I immediately said that I am ready to meet. But Dendias said that I’m not ready to comply is not because of us. Sometimes we have tensions with other countries, but we have meetings. The perforation problem can be solved very easily. If a mechanism for revenue sharing is established, 90 percent of the problems are solved. The TRNC offered a commission. Although the Greek Cypriot side accepts the rights of the TRNC, it does not want to make a decision. Greece and the Greek Cypriot side did not reach a solution in all efforts. We were unable to reach a permanent solution in Cyprus. We need to unite informally, 3 guarantor countries, two parties and the UN on the island. We need to determine what we will negotiate. We need to determine the time, we are in favor of solving the problem fairly, Kınrıs like Turkey.
Lastly, we said to the EU parliament, is there anyone among you who accepts this for your country? They say absolutely no. They say ‘This is a ridiculous map’. As long as this map exists, there is no negotiation.
“WE ARE NOT OBSERVING ANYONE”
In the Eastern Mediterranean, we want to protect the rights of the Republic of Turkey and the TRNC. If this is not in cooperation with the riparian countries, we are determined to do it with unilateral steps. We are ready to sit down with everyone if they prepare for a fair deal in the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, but we are also determined. It is not a difficult thing, you must have the same understanding of the other side. You have to be realistic, even if you remove the islands of Greece, the tip of the continent is reaching the Mediterranean. We don’t have an eye on anyone. We assume our rights in accordance with the law or through negotiations. If they continue to exclude us, we will take our own rights, as we have demonstrated in the field especially since 2018. We continue our activities and the ship doing the maintenance returns to the field. We need to see concrete steps, concrete steps to guarantee our rights. You already know our presence in the TRNC as a guarantor country. According to our need for shade on the Mediterranean coast, we increase our deposits in the TRNC. Closed Varosha remains inactive, we said to open this place and not to lose anyone’s rights. An inventory study is being carried out, we want to open Closed Varosha in a way that protects the rights of everyone, who owned, died or sold it.
First of all, we told Pompeo that it was not the correct approach to go to the Greek side and not to the Turkish side. When the previous officials went to the island, he had a meeting with the Turkish authorities. Unfortunately, Pompeo did not travel north on this visit. We remind you that it should be like this. It has to be objective and balanced. It must not break equality. We said that lifting the embargo will also break equality.
WILL THE ‘GOOD WILL’ COME FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN?
If a reservation is found, it is our right and we will evaluate it. If our seismic research is controversial, it will be. We do whatever it takes to protect our rights.
CHP FOREIGN POLICY CRITICISMS
There is an expectation of this nation, Turkey must act together for the protection of rights. Unfortunately, we have occasionally seen statements of support from some political parties. It is disrespectful to say that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ineffective and absent. As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we do all the work.
Regardless of the party leader, we do it whenever you request information. For a long time, I wanted to inform the CHP president, Kılıçdaroğlu, especially about the islands, and I said to Öztürk Bey, let me inform Mr. President. I wanted to go and report to Kılıçdaroğlu. We spoke to Meral Akşener on the phone and explained. When we looked at the main opposition party, we saw extremely contradictory statements, we didn’t see full support and agreement. They came out and asked ‘Oh Greece, what does this map mean?’ This is a national problem.
