Stay strategically and with depth Greco-Egyptian relationsaccording to what his sources said yesterday Ministry of Foreign Affairson the occasion of the recent visit of the head of GEETHA Konstantinos Floros in Cairo. Diplomatic sources stressed that the agreement on the demarcation of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between Foreign Ministers Nikos Dendias and Sameh Soukri in August 2020 remains the crowning achievement of bilateral treaties between Athens and Cairo. The same sources welcomed the protocol signed on Wednesday in Cairo by Mr. Floros and his colleague Osama Rosdi Askar on the training of Greek officers at the NASSER Higher Military Academy and at the Egyptian Command and Staff School. At the same time yesterday, Mr. Dendias, after meeting in Athens with his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics, spoke widely about Turkey’s neutral position towards Russia and its aggression in the Aegean Sea.

Mr. Dendias noted that Turkey “does not impose sanctions and at the same time in the summer was a haven for Russian oligarchs and Russian megayachts, which are generally prohibited in Greece and Europe.” He also mentioned the Akyuyu nuclear power plant under construction as the largest Russian investment abroad, while stressing that Ankara and Moscow “in some areas seem to have adopted similar models of behavior with the promotion of revisionism, i.e. projecting a model of changing borders that has nothing to do with the perception of the international legal order, as well as the EU. Mr. Dendias expressed satisfaction that NATO Land Forces had withdrawn his post following the transition. Referring to the Ukrainian case, Mr. Dendias noted that Athens has a clear position “to hold accountable for the commission of any war crimes.” And he added that “nothing can and should not go unpunished”, meaning, in fact, the destroyed Mariupol.

Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again attacked EU institutions, this time the European Court of Human Rights.

Yesterday the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan he once again attacked EU institutions, this time against the European Court of Human Rights, calling it essentially biased against his country. At the same time, speaking from Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis, the government’s far-right partner Devlet Bahceli, returned to his allegations of “locking” Turkish F-16s by Greek S-300s, while he described the statement of Senator Bob Menendez of Athens that Turkey represents the biggest threat in the Eastern Mediterranean as “arrogance, incompetence, blasphemy”.

Finally, it is noted that an NGO controlled by Ankara called the Federation of Turks of Western Thrace in Europe sent a letter to the governor. UN, protesting alleged violations of the Treaty of Lausanne in the election of muftis.