The extreme-right nationalist coalition partners of Turkish President Erdogan called the “Grey Wolves” took a leaf out of the latter’s provocative tactics against Greece posting in Greek their expansionist dreams, which included the handing over of a map that showed Crete under Turkish rule.

The nationalist party republished the provocative map showing half of the Aegean and Crete under Turkish rule while posting a series of tweets praising their leader Bahceli and saying the Turkish nation has the power to remind Greeks “how deep the waters of the Aegean are”.

“We are proud to present our Chief Devlet Bahçeli with our map,” the Grey Wolves write on Twitter. The Grey Wolves then laid out their “explanations” regarding their unreasonable demands. In the said tweets, the Grey Wolves say that Crete is… an integral part of the Turkish homeland, they emphasise that the Aegean islands were usurped by Greece and were “trapped” within Greek sovereignty, while they threatened Greece saying that “the Turkish nation has the power to remind the Greek state how it can destroy Athens and how frigid and deep the waters of the Aegean are”!

On Saturday, Bahceli, in his meeting, appeared brandishing a large-sized map that goes a step further than Erdogan’s “Blue Homeland” which has now become a government narrative, and shows half of the Aegean and even Crete under Turkish rule!

Bahceli visited the headquarters of the nationalist organisation “Grey Wolves”, of which he is effectively the head, and had a meeting with its executives. After the end of the meeting, the de jure leader of the “Grey Wolves” Ahmet Yigit Yildirim, also a top executive of the far-right co-ruling MIR party, presented Bahceli with a table with a map showing the Aegean islands and Crete, as part of … Turkey.

For its part, Athens characterised the movements in question as “aggressive”.

Specifically, diplomatic sources point out that “the public posting of a map by top officials of the party that is a government partner in Turkey, which depicts Greek territory as Turkish, is particularly aggressive and provocative action and is absolutely condemnable”.

They then point out that “unfortunately, it is part of the escalation of extreme rhetoric from Turkey that we are witnessing on a daily basis. We expect the immediate categorical and public condemnation of this unacceptable act of questioning the territorial sovereignty of our country.”

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