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2021-04-18 The Grand Turk
Erdogan Defends Minister after Spat With Greece
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
on Friday robustly defended his foreign minister after he traded barbs in an unusually public spat with his Greek counterpart.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’s visit to Ankara on Thursday ended in disarray when he and Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu used their closing statements to accuse each other of discrimination and violating international laws.

"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has violated international laws and conventions in the Aegean Sea and in the eastern Mediterranean," Dendias told Cavusoglu at one point, AFP reported.

"Turkey has carried out 400 (military) flights over Greek soil," said Dendias.

"If you heavily accuse my country and people before the press, I have to be in a position to respond to that," Cavusoglu retorted.

The oddly undiplomatic press event became the dominant talking point on Ottoman Turkish news shows and overshadowed what was meant to be an attempt by the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
neighbors to mend ties after a year of disputes.

It was the first time the two ministers met since the two countries teetered on the edge of war when their gunboats collided during a Ottoman Turkish push into disputed eastern Mediterranean waters last August.

Erdogan said Cavusoglu "could not be any softer" with Dandias because "that would not suit our country or people."

"Our foreign minister put him in his place in the face of this behavior and attitude," Erdogan told news hounds after attending Friday prayers in Istanbul.

The Ottoman Turkish leader said his own meeting with Dendias earlier that day was held in a "warm atmosphere."

Dendias had also described his talks with Erdogan as "extraordinary."

Turkey had said last month that Dendias was coming to prepare what could have been a groundbreaking summit between Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

But the heated exchange highlighted the deep diplomatic divide that stands between the two neighbors and no summit was announced.

The disagreements on Thursday included each country’s treatment of their respective Ottoman Turkish Moslem and Greek Orthodox minorities.

Erdogan took issue with Dendias’s decision to pay a visit to the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians in Istanbul on Wednesday.

"You don’t show the necessary ... concern for our 150,000 (Turks in Greece). You appoint their chief mufti," Erdogan said. "We do not appoint the patriarch here."
Posted by Fred 2021-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
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