Threats, insults and provocations towards Greece were contained in the interview to a television channel by the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
“Turkey will do research, drilling and trade,” Cavusoglu said. “We must protect our country, even if the world stands against us. Whoever it is,” he added.
Speaking in a particularly disparaging way, Cavusoglu described Greece as “pathetic” and said that Athens “feels uncomfortable with Turkey being a global player”.
“Anyone who rides a makeshift horse falls quickly. Don’t keep saying that the USA is behind me and the EU is behind me. You have a strong Turkey in front of you,” he said, adding “in history, the Turkish soldier threw you into the sea and because you couldn’t ‘digest’ it, you are hostile to the Turks everywhere”.
Cavusoglu questioned why the EU, Greece and Egypt are worried about the Turkish-Libyan agreement, saying that Turkey is the most important factor for Libya and has only one goal, its stability.
“Greece is pathetic. They are in such a pitiable condition that they go to other countries and cry and beg,” he said, with obvious insult.
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“The statement ‘one night, we will suddenly come’ still applies”
Cavusoglu called on the US to return to ‘balance’ and echoed the message of the Turkish leadership. “For whomever threatens Turkey, the statement ‘one night, we will suddenly come’ still applies”, he said, arguing that Turkey says so for its own interests.
He also once again accused Greece of violating the Lausanne and Paris peace treaties, raising the issue of demilitarization. “For peace to continue, they must be demilitarized. So they want conflict, not peace. And this must be answered,” he said.
Continuing his rant about Greece, he said that “in Thrace there is persecution, oppression, there is no religious freedom”.
