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1 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Thread. Last night I joined @business's @AsharqNews's program to discuss #Turkey's FM visit to #Greece and whether diplomatic overtures can be taken seriously without concrete actions to back it up. Segment begins 51 min on. In Arabic, so key points below now.asharq.com/program/4/%D8%…
1. Between 2009 and 2019, Turkey carried out 450 overhead flights over Greek territory. In 2020 alone, that number was over 400, showing a drastic escalation of provocations.
2. Turkey is currently transferring attack drones to its base in Northern Cyprus, upgraded Bayraktar-TB2s which have a range of over 100 miles, i.e. placing Greece, Egypt, Gaza and Israel in range. In 2019, this base began housing research drones.
3. Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 and has illegally occupied it for the past 47 years and continues to violate int'l law and recently conjured illegal maritime deals that violate the sovereignty of Greece, Cyrprus, Libya, and Egypt while sending mercenaries to Europe's frontiers.
4. Shoud Greece make concessions to Turkey for the sake of normalization? No. Why? It is not Greece that is violating Turkish sovereignty but the other way around. Turkey's strategy of fait accompli cannot be accomodated and rewarded with concessions to provocations.
5. Even as the Turkish FM speaks of dialogue and reconciliation in Athens, PM Erdogan announced a visit to illegally occupied northern #Cyprus to make an announcement on gas explorations. These are two contradictory statements that suggest the embattled AKP is merely buying time
UPDATE: I want to thank my viewers for their verdict ⬇️ It's always my pleasure to discuss and better yet, debate⚡

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