The Greek government praised the final results of Thursday’s EU summit on Greece and Cyprus in Turkey’s competitive movements in the eastern Mediterranean, in fact, the EU warned Turkey that sanctions will be imposed unless Ankara ceases to provoke provocations against the two members of the Union. .
In truth, however, the EU’s new warning to Turkey is similar to several precedents in recent months, whether from european Commission President Ursula von der Leyen or national leaders.
“We are waiting for Turkey to run so as not to take unilateral action. In the case of these renewed movements through Ankara, the EU will use all available tools and options. We have a set of tools that we can apply immediately,” said the president of the European Commission warned in its statement.
Turkey’s compliance with this particular precaution will be discussed in December. In other words, one can simply say that EU leaders have given Turkey two more months to continue acting like Turkey, the bully of the eastern Mediterranean.
The warnings sent to Turkey through the European Commission in recent years have been numerous, but Turkey has never lost sleep over any of them.
The Turkish army has complex in Syria to attack the Kurds, has worried about the civil war in Libya, now joins Azerbaijan in its armed confrontation with Armenia, sending warships to Greek and Cypriot territorial waters to accompany search vessels and violating Greek airspace each. and every week.
He has also tried to take thousands of migrants to Greece across the Evros border, allowed migrant boats to leave their shores for Greece, drew maps of Turkey, added land belonging to other countries and threatened a wage war against Greece and Cyprus.
And the list goes on and on.
For all these acts that violate foreign law and the law of the sea and claim many lives, Turkey has gained warnings from the European Union, the United States and NATO, warnings that never prevented Recep Tayyip Erdogan from acting as a wonderful aspiring sultan.
One must be convinced that a guy who tells his constituents that he will “drown the Greeks like his ancestors in Izmir” if he doesn’t get what he needs in the Aegean Sea is a guy who can argue with Greece.
How can you accept as true a guy who draws imaginary maps of Turkey that come with portions of the sea and the land of your country and who sits at the negotiating table and discusses land problems with him?
How can we expect to have an interaction in the discussion with Turkey when Ankara is putting demands on the table as a precondition, such as the demilitarization of Kastellorizo, a Greek island from which Turkey claims ownership?
Ideally, Erdogan, in spite of everything, will realize that his country can no longer withstand the cry of the foreign network and the isolation imaginable, and more importantly, he will realize that the sharp decline of the Turkish economy can lead to a point of no return.
Only then will constant warnings and threats of EU sanctions have the weight to replace their agenda.