“For the long term there is a danger that Erdogan will try to get Athens off guard once the opportunity arises, such as a wider global destabilization in which Turkey would assume that nobody would care for the fate of Greece.” He is an expert in the field and knows Erdogan’s volatility – though he has a caveat.
That is for the short term,” Ioannis Michaletos, an associate of the Institute for Defense & Security Analysis in Athens told The National Herald. “Turkey is still bluffing and tries to exercise psychological pressure on Greece, hoping that Athens will bend and then Ankara will extract concessions. Politics abhors a vacuum, and Erdogan, smelling weakness and anticipating the departure of Anastasiades in February 2023, with a field of candidates so anonymous their mothers wouldn’t know them, could make the occupied side of Cyprus part of Turkey.Ĭould it happen? What would the international community’s response be?
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The EU has no military, NATO wouldn’t intervene even if Turkey invaded the rest of Cyprus, the United States plays both sides against the middle, and UN officials are only concerned about what today’s free lunch is. The embargo just drove Cyprus into the arms of Russia in the past and it took until now for the United States to realize that wasn’t such a good idea in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, especially with Turkey buying Russian S-400 missile systems that undermine NATO and could be used against Greece and Cyprus in a conflict.Įrdogan, naturally, wasn’t happy because he wants defenseless foes, which is why he’s also insisting that Greece remove troops from Aegean islands, which would leave them open to invasion. law – but doesn’t want Cyprus having the right to defend itself. Turkey can deploy any weapons it wants on Cyprus, including those acquired from the United States for decades – which is illegal under U.S. Many liberal Turkish Cypriots feared the financial deal and the airport designation were signals that Erdogan wants to eventually annex the breakaway state, the Associated Press said then. In June, Cyprus complained to the UN – which has zero interest in hearing it – that more Turkish funding for the occupied land showed Turkey’s “complete control” over the Turkish-Cypriots.Īnastasiades told state broadcaster CyBC that he would also include in the protest letter Turkey’s move to designate the Turkish-Cypriots’ unrecognized, main airport as a domestic flight route, effectively turning it into a Turkish one. Turkey props up the failed phony republic on the island with financial assistance, which is getting tougher to do with 83 percent inflation weakening the economy under Erdogan, who thinks he’s a banker too and sets interest rates. President’ Tatar does whatever Erdogan tells him, giving new meaning to the term lackey, and with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades finishing his corruption-stained 10 years in power in 2023, there won’t be any doors open for talking about unity.
He said Turkey – which means the occupied Turkish-Cypriot territory too – no longer would even talk about reunification, demanding recognition instead for the isolated self-declared republic no other country in the world accepts. The man whom Wolfgang Kubicki, Vice-President of Germany’s Bundestag Lower Parliamentary chamber called a “little sewer rat” – leading Erdogan to sue him for defamation – has correctly gauged he can do almost anything he wants and get away with it. He keeps some 40,000 troops there on the occupied northern third seized in two unlawful 1974 invasions, with the implicit support of the United States, and now is furious that an American arms embargo was lifted on the Greek-Cypriot legitimate government that’s a member of the EU.Įrdogan long ago gave up any idea that Turkey would be admitted to the bloc, the prospects worsening under his authoritarian rule which has seen journalists jailed and driven into exile, civil society, the courts, military and education systems purged after a failed 2016 coup attempt against him. Watching Russia effortlessly annex four Ukrainian territories and fully understanding that the Useless Nations, Eunuch Union, and the NATO Defenseless Alliance would do nothing, Turkish Sultan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sniffing around Cyprus.
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