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Gatestone: Turkish television discusses hitting Greece – Analysis

"We will not invade the islands. We will use our right to move freely. In a generation, all the islands will be majority Turkish"

Newsroom April 1 10:06

On Turkey’s pro-government TV channel AHaber, political analysts and national security specialists on February 28 enthusiastically discussed how the Turkish Air Force could strike Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

Speaking in front of a map of Turkey and Greece, Mesut Hakkı Caşın, a professor of international law and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s advisor for security and foreign policy, spoke about the Turkish Kaan fighter jet, which is currently under development, and said:

“This [Kaan] plane won’t be spotted by Greek radars. As this plane hits the main targets [Aegean islands] here, the other plane accompanying it, [the UAV Bayraktar] Akıncı, can destroy all the radars here [on the islands], leaving the Greeks blind…

“Add to that our other unmanned combat aerial vehicles, Greek squares will be devastated in less than 3 hours…

“If the Greeks enter a war with us, all the weapons in all those islands will be war booty for us.”

Another analyst said:

“The Turkish nation has a dream regarding the islands, but the official policy can’t be expressed publicly.”

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Another said:

“We will not invade the islands. We will use our right to move freely. We will be a member of the European Union. And then the islands will demographically pass to the Turkish people in a generation. In a generation, all the islands will be majority Turkish.”

“Conquest without a war,” he added, “happens like this [through demographic domination].”

The other analyst disagreed:

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“Those islands were under Ottoman rule for 500 years, but they were 95 percent demographically Greek. Even the Ottoman Empire could not Turkify them. Also, I don’t believe Turkey will ever be a member of the EU. [The conquest of the islands] will happen only through war.”

So, the Turkish government aims to conquer the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea – either militarily or demographically. The goal is the same: the islands’ capture.

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