In his latest tirade, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan redefined the borders of his country that include “the city of Thessaloniki,” the second largest in Greece.
During a speech from the northwestern city of Eskişehir he said “If one border of Eskişehir is Thessaloniki, the other border is Crimea!”
The Turkish president, who has never concealed his neo-Ottoman fantasies, spoke from Eskişehir, a strategically significant city in the Anatolian heartland. He reiterated, once again, that the borders of his country extend beyond its geographical limits.
“Eskişehir does not only border its neighboring provinces. If one border of Eskişehir is Thessaloniki, the other border is Crimea. If one border is Samarkand, the other border is northern Cyprus,”* Erdogan declared, according to state news agency Anadolu, during a provincial congress of his party.
He also emphasized “we are focused on the ideal of a great and powerful Turkey. We have thoroughly analyzed the picture that emerged from the March 31 elections. We are shaping our roadmap accordingly.”
Members of the ruling AKP party from various regions of Eskişehir attended the conference, which took place at the city’s Polytechnic indoor sports center.
Since 2018 Turkish foreign policy has consistently advanced an irredentist strategic position that raises territorial disputes with neighboring counties including Greece in the Aegean Sea.
PS Is Erdogan inspired by US counterpart Donald Trump? No. It’s his dream of neo-Ottoman imperialism he calls “Blue Homeland” aiming to revive the borders of the Ottoman empire (1299-1922).
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Trump, Putin, Kim Un Jong, Erdogan… The world has no shortage of psychopathic leaders and politicians. It almost seems like a prerequisite to go into politics but I seriously think that any aspiring politician should be tested and denied on psychiatric and psychological conditions.
In Serbia, we have Aleksandar Vuci who people are protesting against currrently. Same material.
Erdogan is a madman, but not dumb. He wants to restore the Ottoman Empire with him as Sultan. Except, nobody occupied by that empire wants to return to that. It is a distraction of Turkey’s failing economy anyway.
You’re deluded if you include the awesome Putin and Trump on your stupid list. Erdogan spouts nonsense and at least up to now has been supported by western imperialist interests…NATO US ANGLO GERMAN AXIS. Once and if that ends Turkey will end.
One has to be completely deluded to think that anybody on that list is not a megalomaniac narsisistic psychopath, in various degrees, willing to send ordinary people to their deaths in order to secure and advance their own place in history.
How anybody can defend people like that is beyond me.
The reason why there always has been so much suffering in the world is because people like them. And as I said, politicians and other leaders should be thoroughly screened psychologically. Because current systems don’t offer safeguards against them.
inspried by the fact that trump is putting america first and would not want to get involved ….. this needs to be a EU reponse as nato is cuckolded.
Europe? Apart from a few states…Hungary Poland Slovakia Serbia maybe Italy…but I doubt it…Europe is managed by globalist cronies. Erdogan and the Turkish parastate have nothing to fear as the enemy has already infiltrated Europe.
I live in Serbia and the place is governed by a megalomaniac narsisistic psychopath and his henchmen, with connections to organized crime. They are robbing the country left and right.
There have been protests against them for weeks. The place is slowly into a dictatorship.
Israel annexing, Trump wanting Greenland, South African government expropriating land without compensation, poor Erdogan feels left out, he has to at the very least say something.
I have heard this rhetoric from Erdogan before. I think he says it to appease nationalists in his country. I certainly don’t take it seriously, meaning, I highly doubt he would act on this statement. For decades, I have heard Greeks say that Turkey will attack them now. I know ppl won’t agree with me, but I am labeling it rhetoric.