Maria Karystianou made her first intervention on Greek-Turkish relations, publicly requesting that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inform citizens about the agenda of the upcoming meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, even raising the question of whether the meeting is necessary at all.

In a post on X, amid efforts to establish her political movement, Maria Karystianou notes that Mr. Mitsotakis’s meeting with Erdogan gains particular importance following statements by Hakan Fidan, who said that “we must not leave the table unless the problems are resolved.”

For this reason, she calls for public information, aiming “for Greek citizens to judge whether this meeting is necessary,” as well as to know the government’s positions on the issues to be discussed, without providing further details.

At the same time, she emphasizes that the preservation of national sovereignty and the exercise of the country’s sovereign rights, as derived from international law, “are non-negotiable, and any renunciation of them is national betrayal.”

The full post by Ms. Karystianou:

“Mr. Mitsotakis, you have agreed to an upcoming meeting with Mr. Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey—a meeting for which Mr. Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, even stated: ‘We must not leave the table unless the problems are resolved.’

Therefore, this meeting you have accepted is of utmost national importance, and all Greeks have the right to know:
(a) what the topics for discussion are, as officially communicated to you, so that Greek citizens can judge whether the meeting is necessary; and
(b) what the government’s positions are on these issues.

It is obvious that the preservation of national sovereignty and the exercise of the country’s rights under international law are non-negotiable, and any renunciation of them is national betrayal.”