Kyriakos Mitsotakis found himself on the defensive after the warnings he received from within his party about possible concessions to Turkey regarding Greek-Turkish issues.
After the end of the European Council Session on Migration, the Prime Minister made statements from Brussels addressing Antonis Samaras as well.
“Let me make a distinction between the views of Mr. Samaras and the rest of the voices that are heard around these issues. For Mr. Samaras, I will say that his opinions are respected. I want to remind you that he was a former prime minister, he was a man who met with Mr. Erdoğan during the administration of Mr. Samara and with Mr. Venizelos as a minister. There were also exploratory contacts,” said Mr. Mitsotakis.
“There are many extremely extreme voices in Greece from parties that are to the right of the ND and accuse the government of being concessionaires, why are we doing what? Because we are talking with Turkey?
“I wonder where all those super-patriots were when we protected Greece’s borders on the Evros?”
“Where were all these super patriots when we extended the territorial waters to 12 miles in the Ionian, when we signed the exclusive economic zone with Egypt, creating sovereign rights by seal, by law where were all these super patriots when we bought Rafale the burst? When did we place the order for the F-35s?”, said Mr. Mitsotakis, answering about the equipment, while the criticism he receives is about the division of the Aegean.
“I have met six times with Mr. Erdogan. This does not mean that we have agreed that we are close to an agreement on the maritime zones, EEZ and continental shelf issues. We still have a long way to go to get to that point.
“But I wanted to give this slightly more extended answer to all those who consider themselves more patriotic than we all are. I suspect that in a real crisis they would be the first to “put the tail on the legs”.
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