With the phrase “I heard several Greeks”, Turkish Defense Minister Holusi Akar left the meeting of the NATO parliamentary committee, which is being held in Istanbul, after the unprecedented incident that caused the demilitarization of the Aegean islands and accusing Greece of sponsoring terrorists.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar tried to turn the meeting of the NATO interparliamentary committee into a platform to promote Turkey's absurd allegations.
According to information from protothema.gr, Mr. Akar developed the whole Turkish agenda, accusing Greece of violating all the treaties, again demanding the demilitarization of the Aegean islands, while reiterating the old Turkish claim that there are training camps (of Kurds) for terrorists in Lavrio. .
In any case, the reaction of the Greek delegation was immediate and united. Initially, the head of our delegation to NATO, Spilios Libanos, rejected the Turkish allegations while informing the representatives of the other countries that participated in the meeting about all the Turkish violations, the overflights, the instrumentalization of immigration and the violation of the International Atomic Energy Agency. . The position of Manousos Voloudakis moved in the same direction.
However, when Mr. Andreas Loverdos spoke, Mr. Akar interrupted the meeting, typically saying “I heard several Greeks” and, citing a workload, left. However, according to eyewitnesses, the Turkish Minister of Defense went for coffee at the bar of the conference room!
What Manousos Voloudakis says
He spoke to protothema.gr about the Akar verbal episode at the NATO parliamentary assembly New Democracy MP from Chania, Manousos Voloudakis, characteristically saying that the Turkish Minister of Defense “could not bear to listen to us all and left”.
Manousos Voloudakis explained: “There is a big change in the climate from what we are used to in the NATO parliamentary assembly. The Turks always tried to show an institutional and civilized face, without friction. In fact, they let us open the discussions and it seems that we are provoking “.
He added that the current tension that lasted more than ten minutes with Akar leaving the room irritated: “Today something completely different happened as Hulusi Akar opened the agenda talking about various unacceptable issues with the last one demanding the demilitarization of the islands. Our delegation naturally reacted when it spoke. In fact, he could not bear to listen to us all and left. Of the four, he only listened to Spilios Libanos and me with the excuse that he had to leave because he was flying and did not have time. What he did was unacceptable because he spent more time in the wells. “
Manousos Voloudakis also said: “Of course at the end of his conversation the politician rightly told us that we must coexist. For & # 8217; I told him that on the one hand you are telling us this and on the other there is not a day that we do not hear a threat of war. Not only in words but also with constant violations of our sovereignty that have reached the point of being overflights over inhabited islands. I also told him that you have two meters and two weights, as a result of which you lead to logical paradoxes because on the one hand you claim the right to conduct military operations in Syria, Iraq, Libya for your security and at the same time you have an army there you tell us not to we have an army on our own soil. This is absurd. In the end, I told him that with the rhetoric of the last weeks that Turkey is following, what they have achieved is to strengthen the national solidarity of the Greeks and I assured him that we will never give up. “
What he says the Cave of Lebanon
For his part, the MP of Etoloakarnania of ND, Spilios Libanos, said: “Akar came in the morning and attacked the politicians of Greece who interrupt the dialogue between the two countries, as he said, in the provocative position of Greece towards Turkey and the various issues they have recently been arguing for. As head of the Greek delegation to NATO, I replied, telling him that it was like stepping on two boats and that it was the least strange to talk about international law and good neighborly relations, when Turkey has been threatening us with the casus belli for decades. despite the fact that we are friends and allies in NATO. When it invaded and illegally occupied the northern part of Cyprus, when they make flights in our airspace, but also over the Greek islands “.
He continued: “He got angry there and turned from English to Turkish. He blushed, got angry with the issue of Cyprus and at some point the atmosphere was charged again. I set all the Greek positions. How we are open to dialogue, always based on international law. We said a lot, then Voloudakis spoke and then he left. We caught him in the hallway and in front of the cameras he continued to speak in Turkish loudly and I in English. He was provocative, he said his own thing. “
“In general, the climate was intense, although at first it did not appear. He turned it around himself with what he said. I do not know, maybe he expected that we would be afraid and would not answer. We answered and there he got angry. A month and a half ago in the committee of leaders that took place in Athens, we did not mention the Turks at all, we respected them. They were now behaving as if they wanted to bully and bully us in Istanbul. This shows that it is boiling “concluded Mr. Libanos.
What Theodora Tzakri says
Theodora Tzakri, Pella MP from SYRIZA, stated in this regard: should be resolved through dialogue and in a spirit of mutual respect. He added that some Greek politicians have adopted a rhetoric that fuels tensions and worsens the situation. He also stressed that some countries of the European Union support terrorism and that we are violating Turkish airspace. “
” We asked the entire Greek delegation to speak. He listened to Libano and Voloudaki and when it was my turn and Loverdos' turn he left, saying that it is not possible for members of the Greek Parliament to speak constantly, ending the sitting as well. I reacted and told him that he should listen to all the deputies who want to speak in the context of the debate in the committee and that, in addition to a national delegation, we are also representatives of parties and should & # 8217; we hear. “But he left and the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez came, who continued the challenges in the same tone”, concluded Mrs. Tzakri.
