Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Türkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan during a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Jul 12, 2023. (Photo: Dimitris Papamitsos/Greek Prime Minister’s Office/Handout via REUTERS)
Leaders of Greece and Turkey (“Türkiye”) vow to “repair” ties after year of tension – What’s…REALLY going on behind the scenes
From Reuters we read:
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Türkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan during a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Jul 12, 2023. (Photo: Dimitris Papamitsos/Greek Prime Minister’s Office/Handout via REUTERS)…
13 Jul 2023 04:26AM
ATHENS: Greece and Türkiye agreed on Wednesday (Jul 12) to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new “positive climate” in ties after more than a year of tensions between the historic foes.
The two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have been at odds for decades over a range of issues including where their continental shelves start and end, energy resources, overflights of the Aegean Sea, and ethnically split Cyprus.
Last year, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan halted bilateral talks in a dispute over airspace violations and after accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of pressuring the United States to block the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
Relations improved when Greece became one of the first countries to send rescue workers to help pull survivors from the rubble after a devastating earthquake hit Türkiye in February.
Erdogan and Mitsotakis, both recently re-elected, met on the sidelines of a NATO Summit in Vilnius on Wednesday in their first meeting since March last year.
“It is to the benefit of both countries that the positive climate formed in bilateral relations over recent months has continuity and consistency,” the two leaders’ offices said in identical but separate statements.
“The two sides agreed to build on the positive momentum and activate multiple channels of communication between the two countries in the coming period,” they said, adding that the two leaders look forward to “more frequent contact at all levels.”
They also agreed that the next meeting of a High-Level Cooperation Council, a mechanism the two countries set up in 2010 for their rapprochement, will be held in the northern Greek city of Thessalonki in the autumn.
“We are cautiously optimistic we can turn a new page,” Mitsotakis told reporters after the summit.
GreekNewsOnDemand.com comments: What’s REALLY going on, behind the scenes, is a sinister deal being worked out between Mitsotakis and Erdogan regarding the divvying up of the Aegean Sea and it’s resources with the US, Germany and Europe refereeing the whole process. THIS is what all of tension between Greece and Turkey has had to do with for YEARS now because, simply put, the Turks –who ENSLAVED the Greeks for 400 years under the Ottoman Empire and who are, TODAY, OCCUPYING both ANCIENT GREECE and ARMENIA (and over the years have tried to ERRADICATE any extant Greek, Armenian, etc., populations out of “Turkey”)– want MORE of HELLAS (GREECE) than what they’ve already…STOLEN FROM US OVER THE CENTURIES WITH THE CONSENT OF THE MAJOR WESTERN POWERS!!! Unfortunately, the “Greek” PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis (who nothing more than a TRAITOR who needs to be ARRESTED, TRIED and..FRIED for crimes against the Greek people) is…IN ON IT and will, eventually, CONSENT TO THIS because he, his late father, Constantine Mitsotakis (who was once also the “Greek” PM), as well as many other prominent “Greek” politicians have ALREADY expressed their DESIRE FOR SUCH A TREASONOUS AGREEMENT with our ancient ENEMIES!!!
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Source: Reuters/ec