Her intention Türkiye continue the path of low tones and open channels of communication with her HellasDays after he agreed to a moratorium on major nationwide exercises, the president’s choice reflects Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeat congratulatory telegram on national holiday March 25 two years after his last relevant move on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Greek independence (2021). Of course, Erdogan’s telegram to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was followed by an even more heated exchange of views between the foreign ministers. Nikos Dendias And Mevlut Cavusoglu. “I am convinced that relations and cooperation between our countries will develop further through our joint efforts in the coming period,” Mr. Erdogan said, in particular, who, however, yesterday tried to maintain a balance with the internal nationalist public, defending his choice turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “After 86 years of nostalgia, he returned to his true image and always in accordance with the will of Mohammed the Conqueror,” Mr. Erdogan said, among other things.

Turkey’s low tones, however, are also related to the reality imposed on it by the ruthless devastation following the earthquake. Calculations of the preliminary economic cost of earthquakes in the amount of more than $100 billion, adopted by the UN and the Turkish government, and in the future it is expected that they will be revised upwards, are only indicative. efforts to be made in the coming years to bring the Turkish economy back to its previous state. Since the West, and especially the EU, is where Turkey can draw the most resources for its reconstruction, it would be an oxymoron to continue its aggressive rhetoric against a member state. At the first donor conference of the EU. For Turkey and Syria combined, 7 billion euros were raised.

At the diplomatic level, it is possible that other initiatives will follow in the near future, as the possible transfer of the Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos to Turkey, where he was invited by his colleague Hulusi Akar, is also expected. .

The Turkish president tried to maintain a balance with the domestic public and defended his choice to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

Meanwhile, yesterday the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidis, separated his country’s position from Turkey’s possible support in the International Maritime Organization (IMO), but indicated that Nicosia would take advantage of a possible strengthening of Greek-Turkish relations. connections.

Finally, it should be noted that in recent days excerpts from the book of the Cypriot publisher Kostis Hatzikosti “7 Presidential Portraits” have been published, where the former President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiadis, allegedly attributes to Mr. Mitsotakis an attempt to stop drilling in the Republic of Cyprus in order to appease the Turks, or construction of the Israel-Turkey gas pipeline bypassing Cyprus.