Greece urges the EU, the UN and NATO to intercede within the face of the escalation of tensions with Turkey – Muricas News

The Authorities of Greece has despatched letters to NATO, the UN and the European Union to warn them of Turkey’s “extraordinarily aggressive” rhetoric, in a request for specific help after the veiled warnings of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of a possible navy motion within the space.

Erdogan warned that Turkey is able to “doing no matter” to stop the Greek “occupation” of the Aegean islands, prompting Greek International Minister Nikos Dendias to ask his allies to intercede.

“The Turkish perspective is a destabilizing issue for the unity and cohesion of NATO and weakens the southern flank of the Alliance at a time of disaster,” stated Dendias, who acknowledged that relations with Ankara are going via “one of many worst intervals in years”, in accordance with the Bloomberg company.

“We danger seeing a scenario just like the one that's already creating in different elements of our continent,” he warned, referring to the warfare in Ukraine, in his letters to the NATO and UN secretaries-general and to the Excessive Consultant of international coverage of the EU. The Greek authorities has already confused that it's prepared to defend its sovereignty in opposition to a hypothetical aggression from Turkey.

Erdogan warned final weekend that Greece “pays a excessive worth” for harassing Turkish navy plane within the Aegean. Turkey has denounced as a “hostile act” the usage of S-300 anti-aircraft system radars positioned on the Greek island of Crete to focus on Turkish F-16 fighter jets on August 23.