For one more time, Turkey has threatened Greece claiming that Athens is changing the status of its own island. Ankara speaks of illegal militarization on Kastellorizo and claims of “illegitimate attempts to change the status of the island.”
Turkey’s protest was reaction to footage in the Turkish media showing Greek soldiers disembarking from a ferry on the southeastern Aegean island on Friday.
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hilmi Aksoy said on Sunday that the island has had a demilitarized status established since the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.
“If true, these media reports are a novel manifestation of the law-disrespecting actions of Greece and her true intentions regarding the Eastern Mediterranean,” Aksoy said.
“We reject the illegitimate attempts of changes on the status of the island,” Aksoy said, adding that Turkey “will not allow… such a provocation immediately across her coasts.”
“Such provocative actions will prove useless for Greece. Should Greece continue to take tension-increasing steps in the region, she will be the one suffering from it,” Aksoy said according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry.
“Turkey is determined indefinitely to defend her rights and interests stemming from international law,” Akosy.
There was no immediate reaction from the Greek government.
However, Bloomberg on Monday quoted a source close to the government saying that the soldiers were already stationed on the island, adding that the event was a routine troop rotation.
Turkish media have claimed that Greece is resorting to a military build-up on the Island of Kastellorizo.
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Deja vu. Remember 1974.
Big bad Greece is bullying poor little Turkey again. And what if big bad Armenia should join in this brutal persecution? Poor little Turkey would be no more!