ISTANBUL – ANSWER. Ankara continues rhetoric of tension with Deputy Prime Minister Fuat Oktay throw threats and respond harshly to the call made Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Turkey from Paris. Mr. Oktay characteristically said, “We see Mitsotakis saying, ‘Don’t come at night, come during the day.’ He does not know that when Turkey demonstrates its strong reaction in the Aegean, Greece’s day will turn into night.”

Mr. Oktay, in his speech to AKP party officials in the city of Sebastia, stated that “Greece is trying every day to violate our airspace and”blue motherland“us. It is militarizing the islands with a demilitarized regime” and argued that Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements about the threat of a military operation against the Greek islands were correct.

“When we react in the Aegean Sea, the day in Greece will turn into night,” said the vice president of the Turkish government.

“When we say ‘collect your thoughts’ and ‘don’t forget Smyrna’ in a Greece that is behaving recklessly, are we becoming a side that stirs up tensions?” The President warned us clearly and categorically. He said: “Stop militarizing the islands, because one night we may come suddenly.” It’s a statement that if they don’t do the right thing, we will do the right thing. They will remember it for what it was even 100 years ago. If Turkey does what it needs in accordance with international agreements, there will be “snow” on the Greek islands on which Greece is so dependent. That’s why we say don’t forget Smyrna, we say don’t forget Cyprus,” he said characteristically.

Meanwhile, Ruling Party Vice President Numan Kurtulmus spoke about the theory of a “great powers” ​​besieging Turkey through Greece and stated that “some people who support or encourage Greece seem to be extremely pleased with some stalemate in the tension. which will put Greece in trouble.” The AKP Vice President expressed Ankara’s reaction to the existence of American bases in Alexandroupolis and Crete and specifically asked: “What is this? Preparing for what? Sorry, no fools.”