Its importance Treaty of Lausanne as a factor in long-term stability in the wider region and the risks associated with the revisionist turn of the Turkish leadership were at the center of discussion at yesterday’s round table “Lausanne Treaty from Yesterday to Today”. in parliament. Speaker of the Parliament Konstantinos Tasoulasin his speech, he emphasized that, above all, the Treaty of Lausanne made a decisive contribution to changing the model of historical course that had prevailed until that time.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dora Bakoyannis, underlined in her speech that, from Turkey’s point of view, doubt about the Treaty of Lausanne existed from the very beginning as an undercurrent and persisted throughout the interim period. He attributed the current manifestation of Turkish revisionism to three factors: Turkish nationalism, the Cyprus issue, and the signing of the Montego Bay Treaty on the Law of the Sea, which Turkey perceived as a direct threat. Finally, he expressed his conviction that no one in the international community was willing to discuss challenging the Lausanne Treaty and changing borders.

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anagnostopoulu Co.referred to the escalation of Turkish revisionism in recent years with the transition from Kemal’s doctrine of “Peace in the country, peace in the world” to imperial logic, to an adventurism similar to the period of the Eastern Question.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, stressed that we should think of the Treaty of Lausanne as a text that represents the parameter of the legal dimension of the national strategy. And he pointed out that the anniversary of the Treaty could be an opportunity, after the elections in Greece and Turkey, to first strategically rethink our own position, while the elections in Cyprus would set the stage for a national strategy.

He added that 200 years after the Greek Revolution, there are still unresolved issues in the sense that zones of sovereign rights have not been delineated. And he stressed that without a comprehensive national strategy in the Greek-Turkish language, we are doomed to live by the standards of the Greek revolution.