Amid the continuing provocations, war-mongering and belligerence on the part of the Islamist Erdogan government of Turkey throughout the Near East, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his call for the European Union to impose ‘meaningful’, as he said, sanctions on Turkey — unless Ankara pulls its military assets from maritime regions in the eastern Mediterranean that do not belong to it.
In an article published simultaneously in the London Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Monde, Mitsotakis stressed that “…We do need dialogue, but not when held at gunpoint. What threatens my country’s security and stability threatens the well-being and safety of all EU member states… If Europe wants to exercise true geopolitical power, it simply cannot afford to appease a belligerent Turkey.”
Meanwhile, on Thursday the Greek premier travelled to Corsica to attend the 7th meeting of the MED7 group of southern European countries, which is hosted by France.
According to sources in Athens, Mitsotakis will also have the opportunity to raise the still unresolved problem of illegal migration plaguing the region.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday French President Emmanuel Macron posted a message, in Greek, on his official Twitter account, expressing France’s solidarity to Greece in the wake of a fire that destroyed the Moria “hotspot” on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.