The meeting between Mitsotakis and Erdogan created a crisis: They touched ground

Yesterday a critical threshold was crossed on the Erdogan-Miçotakis line, which has not been linked for more than a year and the ropes have broken from time to time…

In the middle of this year, Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, who won two elections, and President Erdogan met in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The meeting between Erdogan and Mitsotakis, who last met in March 2022, provoked the reaction of Greek politics.

The Greek opposition parties reacted strongly to Mitsotakis’ meeting with Erdogan. Syriza and the Palestinian Authority bloc said: “During the election period, Mitsotakis said that he would express concern about Turkey’s meddling in the country’s elections. But instead, he put on the diplomatic apron and spoke. The opposition bloc accused Mitsotakis of spoiling the country’s position.

“IT IS NOT A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT”

PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis said: “The US sale of 80 F-16 modernization kits and 40 new fighter jets to Turkey is not a positive development. EU-Turkey relations must be examined on the NATO axis, examined by the EU institutions, and Turkey’s EU membership is a utopian dream.

Androulakis affirmed that the basis of the solution of the EU-Turkey relationship must be the development of the customs union and the respect of its territorial integrity.

The Communist Party of Greece also issued a statement… In the statement made by the party, it was said: “The resumption of Turkish-Greek relations is little more than ‘the acceleration of negotiations under the supervision of NATO'” . In the statement, it was also emphasized that this development raises serious concerns about the sovereign rights of the Greek islands and Greece.