GREEK TURKISH RELATIONS

  This text aims to clarify some facts and perspectives on Greek Turkish relations that seem to lead to confusion amid the turmoil of the war in Ukraine and the unpleasant signs of further escalations. 

Having always insisted on the need to distinguish between a long-term trend and temporary transitions in Akara's strategy towards Greece. 

As if the visit of the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis fully understood the context of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance at the specific time of the Ukrainian crisis would mean something for its neighbors' strategy.

For this to happen, systematic work with a serious indication of the tangible results must proceed it.  

Unfortunately, the recurring pattern is beginning to emerge.  In 2017, the first official visit of a Turkish president to Greece, after 65 years, took place at a time when the Erdogan government had started to isolate itself from the Western camp.  The then Greek government gave its diplomatic step.  The visit had gone badly with the revisions to the Lausanne Treaty deescalations and Erdogan's visit to the Muslim minority in Thrace that Ankara denounces as Turkish. 

It is terrible that we have such aggressive neighbors like Turkey who daily broadcast messages that the Greek islands are Turkish. So it is not a surprise that Greek Turkish relations are deteriorating