SYRIZA for Moni tis Chora: The reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is apologetic and condescending – 2024-05-10 23:10:30

“SYRIZA – PS unequivocally condemns the decision of the Turkish authorities to open the Chora Monastery as a Muslim mosque”, while criticizing the Greek government for a “lax and submissive reaction, inferior to the circumstances”.

In particular, in its announcement, SYRIZA-PS states: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ apologetic, condescending, substandard reaction/response to Erdogan’s new challenge, to turn into a mosque, after Hagia Sophia, the Monastery of the Country, is revealing the kind of foreign policy the government pursues towards Turkey. Just a few days before the visit of the Prime Minister, the relaxed reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to this Turkish challenge not only to Greece but to the international status of UNESCO’s world cultural heritage sites, to the international community, testifies a lot about the how does Mr. Mitsotakis mean the … “red lines”: faded and flexible in the face of constant Turkish challenges and aggression, in the context of the constant degradation that serves the government’s narrative of a ‘positive climate'”.

Continuing, he states: “it does not mean a ‘positive climate in Greek-Turkish relations at the expense of the national interests of our country'”.

“The new Turkish challenge is not a bolt from the blue. It forces the government to immediately take the necessary diplomatic actions against this new Turkish challenge and to make it clear to the neighbor that such unacceptable actions burden Greek-Turkish relations, violate the spirit and the letter of the Athens Declaration and create dangerous fait accompli for our country” , adds SYRIZA.

In closing, he calls on the government “to finally implement a structured national strategy in Greek-Turkish relations, in the context of the proposals we have submitted, instead of managing them with micro-politics, communication logic, putting the partisan above the national interest”.