by Uzay Bulut • April 20, 2018 at
5:00 am
- With the illegal
seizures and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974 and the
Syrian city of Afrin this March -- with virtually no global
reaction -- Turkey apparently feels unchallenged and eager to
continue; this time, it seems, with the oil-and-gas rich
islands of Greece.
- "To take an
interest in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Crimea, Karabakh, Bosnia and
other brotherly regions is both the duty and the right of
Turkey. Turkey is not just Turkey. The day we give up on these
things will be the day we give up on our freedom and
future." — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 2016.
- Turkish needs are in
reality supplied by its association with the US. Turkish
officials usually get whatever they want from the West, but
they seem to have chosen to align themselves with Iran and
Russia, possibly in attempt to blackmail the West for more.
A
computer-generated rendering of the April 17 incident in which
Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter carrying Greek Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras, and in response Greek fighter jets arrived
to protect the helicopter. (Image source: 'A News' video
screenshot)
Turkey has been harassing Greece consistently. Most
recently, this week, on April 17, two Turkish fighter aircraft
harassed the helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras and the Greek Armed Forces Chief Admiral Evangelos
Apostolakis as they were flying from the islet of Ro to Rhodes.
With the illegal seizures and occupation of northern
Cyprus in 1974 and the Syrian city of Afrin this March -- with
virtually no global response -- Turkey apparently feels
unchallenged and eager to continue; this time, it seems, with the
oil-and-gas rich islands of Greece.
Another provocation by the Turkish government
recently took place when three young Greek men recently paid
tribute to a dead pilot by planting five flags in some islets in
the Aegean.
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