Turkish manoeuvres are paying off. Those who have underestimated them, and even more so those who have been misled about the supposed authenticity and sincerity of the «commitments» undertaken by the Turkish political leadership, ought to realize, even before the last hour, that revisionist Turkey has NOT made any concessions, either to Greece or to other powerful Western «allies». and apparently its choice is NOT to be integrated into the regional stability equation in terms of respect for the rules of international law…
Turkey manages time productively and has too much clear objectives for what it seeks, BOTH vis-à-vis Hellenism and in relation to the new upgraded role it claims in the new Power Architecture which is currently being developed.
Towards our country, it is steadily escalating a sustained, alternating, multilevel and multimodal aggression which is part of the single and indivisible tactic of which it has adopted in order to effectively promote its broader strategic objectives. It continues unhindered to choreograph the merry-go-round of regional developments - even shifting the centre of gravity at will - and that which is to strangle diplomatically and politically and on the ground the critical priorities of Hellenism in Greece, in Cyprus and in the wider vital geopolitical space. on which sovereign rights are founded that act as a barrier to its revisionist megalomania.
Turkey, in its attempt to strengthen its revisionist aspirations, does not follow the code of phobic thinking, nor the system of concepts adopted by supposedly «prudent» strategists where are excelling in our country and captivating strategic thinking in the constellation of defeatism.
In Cyprus, it imposes a new package of ultimatums and blackmail and plans to divide Hellenism, while expanding the scope of Attila's «acquisitions», because, quite simply. no one stopped her.
At the same time, does not hesitate to use even the UN as a tool to announce in a blackmailing way everything it demands to be ceded to it in the Aegean and SE Mediterranean.
The letter submitted to the UN is not a document to be treated with excommunications and diplomatic admonitions. It is a intervention with wider implications, the content of which is actively supported by initiatives and actions AND on the ground and soon our country will find it before her in the next steps.
Turkey seeks to abolish the archipelagic character of the Greek Aegean Sea and through the systematic nibbling of our country's sovereign rights, to impose its de facto and definitive partition.
Erdogan's provocative presence in occupied Cyprus and its equally provocative announcement of the opening of part of Famagusta, activates a new aggressive tactic that undermines the authority of the UN, effectively annulling the resolutions 550/84 and 789/92 but also the 1979 Agreement which is sealed with his patronage. The problem is certainly NOT quantitative and the strategic importance of this initiative NOT downgraded because the Erdogan-Tatar decision does not concern the entire enclosed area, but a percentage of 3.5% of its total size.
By this Decision Attila's expanding its footprint, the UN is being driven into total disrepute, while this decision is tantamount to an escalation of a military operation against Cyprus and Greece.
It is important to finally understand that all of the above is NOT the product of the choices of a twisted political administration under Erdogan, which over time will dampen their momentum and danger. These are choices that constitute the dominant perception of the Turkish political elite and are embodied in the neo-Ottoman vision of the 21st century.no Century, while all tendencies in the Turkish political system compete with a bidding mood, in attitudes perfectly adapted to the needs of this vision. And worst of all, powerful forces in the traditional Western system, they are NOT positioned in a categorical way against in this regional geopolitical nightmare, while there are those who maintain the illusion that they can instrumentalize him to strengthen a revised Western power in the new multi-powered competitive environment.
Turkey, however, is making it clear that both its intra-allied differentiations and the regional enlargement it is methodically building have a strategic footprint, they have aggressive Sign and are being recruited to craft the profile of a strong regional power which constitutes a regional power system in a wider environment of Turkic populations and Islamic geopolitical entities.
With this design is in full swing... With the pirate interventions of Turkey bear fruit and ensure the consolidation of a strengthened and permanent Turkish presence - influence in Asia, Africa and the Balkans... With the risk of upheavals that could lead to the restoration or improvement of Turkey's relations with countries where these relations have broken down or been shaken, resulting in a new and more difficult to manage reality, Greece decided to invest in the «calm summer» hooked on the bait of the tourism narrative and with its eyes fixed on internal consumption and its fiscal commitments.
With this choice, our country gave up in advance and in an ugly way, from the potential arsenal that he was obliged to activate in order to stop the predictable, mild but by all means effective neo-Ottoman summer invasion and to modify the rules of the game. So...
- The European dikes were NOT activated and the resulting climate of tolerance shown in the Turkish pirate action It has NOT been overturned...
- German timidity was given vital space so that there is gradually an unacceptable a drift towards the acceptance and eventual perpetuation of the achievements of the Turkish-Colombian Memorandum from the Euroenosis caricature...
- With Cyprus a policy of unified management of Turkish aggression was NOT redesigned at diplomatic, political and operational level in a manner capable of suddenly altering the actual data...
- The added value of the unified Greek and Cypriot vital geopolitical space was NOT repositioned on the geopolitical stock exchange so that the new preferred shares will be created that will NOT be easy to ignore by the American-European partners...
- Greece and Cyprus have gradually slipped into the favourable management environment for Turkey of the Bi-zonal - Bicommunal that has soared Turkish maximalism and brought Erdogan to the Varosha in the midst of provocative thunderbolts.
Tragic milestone of the last 24 hours, was the effective silence with which a purely military operation, in which Turkey targeted a Cypriot Coast Guard vessel, was met with.
Indicative end of the universal reluctance rise to the occasion, which both the Greek and the Cypriot political elite are inspired by, is the fact that how NOT the European Union blackmailed... NEITHER the US was pressured with everything that makes them ache... Neither the regional meetings in which Greece and Cyprus participate realized - despite the wealth of opportunities that have arisen over the last two years - that truly strategic regional cooperation without a clear anti-Turkish bias can NOT exist.
And to finally put an end to all the pretenses and to this trisatholic hiding of the Greek and Cypriot political world with the truth...
Erdogan's intervention in the occupied territories, does not and should not be treated as simply an unacceptable challenge. It is an act of destabilization of the status the legitimacy and ultimately the very geopolitical existence of Cyprus…
The institutions that underpin this existence, which the international community as a whole recognises - and which, I assure you, stigmatises the Occupation in a distinctive way to an independent and sovereign country member of several international organisations - strengthened by multiple decisions of the SC, in a clear, absolute and unequivocal manner and in the spirit of these decisions, arbitrary and especially illegal hybrid cockpits are NOT allowed and NOT tolerated by anyone…
So Erdogan's announcements are not news for Greece and Cyprus. constitute acts of State piracy by an overtly revisionist force, and should to activate the CASUS BELLI of Hellenism, in a way capable of bringing allies and adversaries alike to their great responsibilities.
Erdogan and Turkey have NO right to plan actions and interventions in the territory of the Occupation. On the contrary, Greece and Cyprus must point out today in all international forums and in a series of initiatives they have to undertake for bilateral meetings with their selected allies, that the interventions of the occupying power in the territory of the occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus, constitute an act of war and will be treated as such. And they must do this alongside the necessary operational preparation...
Let's be clear, gentlemen...
If Attila is NOT thrown into the sea and if his henchwomen DO NOT feed the Mediterranean fish, then the operation which envisages the geopolitical disengagement of the whole of Cyprus will NOT be stopped.
And if the business of geopolitical Turkish occupation of Cyprus is not cancelled yesterday, then the territorial integrity of Greece is in direct question and none of the allies will rush to prevent this development, to prevent amputation of a country that is content to regurgitate quotes and various clichés for her rights, but otherwise and in essence, it is unwilling to survive.
So now send the preachers of «prudence» and compromise to the Turkish devil. and be sure to do it is clear to the few Greek Cypriots who are willing to look with a «good eye» at the degenerative operation that the occupying power is setting up, that the active CASUS BELLI of Hellenism, will not tolerate would-be Nightmares.
By Mr Kyriakopoulos
