Journalist’s book Michael Ignatiu as well as Nikos Meletis entitled “The Gray Symphony of the Aegean” was presented last night in the hall of the IANOS bookstore in Thessaloniki.

Through 60 declassified documents of American diplomacy, the authors “represent” the course of Greek-Turkish relations from the Imia episode in January 1996 to the agreement signed in Madrid on July 6, 1997 by then Prime Minister Kostas Simitis and Turkish President Suleiman Demirel, who, like them they say, “the Aegean Sea turned gray”, giving at the same time a rich background.

“The book by Michalis Ignatiou and Nikos Meletis is extremely timely, it is the epitome of explaining our current evil spirit, our self-entrapment into a trajectory of bloodless surrender to national sovereignty,” said, among others, journalist Giorgos Harvalias, one of the speakers, and Stavros Tzimas, also a journalist, stressed the importance of the pain of the two colleagues for the reader’s better understanding of the rapidly evolving and complex Greek-Turkish relations.

The ensuing discussion, led by journalist Stefanos Diamantopoulos, focused on the current stage of Turkish aggression, with speakers emphasizing that all Ankara tactics are developing on the basis of an organized plan. Answering, among other things, the question about the (and) discussed expansion of our territorial waters to twelve miles, they stressed that these issues must be resolved decisively and realistically.

Source: APE/MEB