Posted on 08/19/2020 10:09:59 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Wednesday not to yield to "pirates" and to keep searching for energy in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters despite EU pressure to stop.
Long-seated suspicions between regional powers resurfaced when Turkey sent a research vessel accompanied by warships off the Greek island of Kastellorizo last week.
The European Union urged Turkey to "immediately" halt on Sunday and NATO said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed his "concern" in a call with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday.
But Erdogan sounded undeterred.
"We're 100 percent right on this issue," the Turkish leader said on a visit to a new solar panel production plant.
"If we give in to the pirates, we will not be able to look future generations in the face. We cannot leave to our children a country unable to defend its own rights, lacking self-confidence."
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I guess everybody but Turks are considered pirates.
I don’t know how this diplomacy thing works. Is an expression of “concern” stronger than a Double-Secret Probation?
I lived 2 years in Turkey, curtesy USAF. They are a mean people, first to their own then others.
Pirates? Nab Islamof**k Erdogan and have him walk the plank in shark infested waters
Maybe the EU will send a sternly worded letter.
The Turks should know about pirates. For hundreds of years Europeans traveling by sea in the Mediterranean, or living in a village near one of the coasts of the Mediterranean, were in danger of ending their lives as slaves in the Ottoman Empire or as galley slaves on Turkish ships.
The Turkish people must want war, or they'd get rid of Erdogan.
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