Turkish President Recep Erdogan is continuing to fan the flames between Greece and Turkey after posting a tweet in Turkish about the Siege of Tripolitsa and the ensuing killing by Greek forces of Turks in the city during the Greek War of Independence in 1821. “We have not forgotten and we will never forget the Tripolita Massacre,” the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said in his tweet. The Turkish president, insisting on nationalist rhetoric, goes so far as to make a post about the massacre of Tripolitsa that took place on September 23, 1821.
“We have not forgotten and will never forget the Tripolitsa Massacre, which took place on September 23, 1821, in which brutalized thousands of Muslim Turks, our Albanian brothers, and Jews”, the Turkish president also points out.
23 Eylül 1821 günü gerçekleştirilen, binlerce Müslüman Türk’ün, Arnavut kardeşlerimizin ve Yahudilerin acımasızca, barbarca katledildiği Tripoliçe Katliamı’nı unutmadık, unutmayacağız. pic.twitter.com/3dTd0Fl1n2
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) September 23, 2022
We have not forgotten and will never forget the Tripolice Massacre, which took place on September 23, 1821, in which thousands of Muslim Turks, our Albanian brothers and Jews were brutally murdered. pic.twitter.com/3dTd0Fl1n2— Recep Tayyip Erdogan (@RTErdogan) September 23, 2022
The tweet by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was in New York for the UN General Assembly, comes after the attacks against Greece from the floor of the assembly when he accused Greece of “turning the Aegean into a refugee cemetery “, even showing photos of dead refugee children.
The incendiary statements of the Turkish president did not go unanswered by the Greek government. More specifically, Athens chose to give a calm answer, always taking into account the conditions of good neighbourliness. “We call on him [Erdogan] to return to reason,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said specifically about Turkey from the floor of the UN General Assembly.
