Greece alarmed after Erdogan’s statements about relations with Egypt

Neighboring Greece is almost alarmed after Erdogan’s Egyptian statements. While Erdogan’s statements were number one agenda item in the country, an analysis that attracted attention from the Greek press came.

The words of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who greeted and shook hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the reception given to the leaders on the occasion of the opening of the World Cup in Qatar, have caused panic in Greece. The neighboring press, which devoted extensive space to Erdogan’s Egyptian statements, carried the balances in the Mediterranean to its pages.

ERDOGAN: “I SEE A POSITIVE MOOD IN RELATIONS WITH EGYPT”

CNN Greece, which carried Erdogan’s “I see a positive mood in relations with Egypt” headline, commented that the tension in bilateral relations has begun to soften in Qatar. The newspaper, which wrote that the meeting of the two leaders had lasted 45 minutes, shared information that Egypt and Turkey will continue talks at the ministerial level.

In.gr shared this development with readers with the title ‘The ministers of the two countries will meet to improve relations’. The newspaper said the two leaders’ meeting in Qatar was interpreted as a ‘new beginning’. The handshake between Erdogan and Sisi, 9 years after the coup in Egypt, was the highest-level contact between the two countries in the past time…

GREECE IS LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION: CAN EGYPT BETRAY?

Ta Nea, on the other hand, shared a remarkable analysis; “Could Egypt betray Greece?’ The newspaper that asked this question exposed the panic in Athens. ‘Athens is certainly monitoring the movements of its allies and especially having to do with Turkey” it said.

Another Greek newspaper To Vima preferred the headline ‘The handshake that lit a fire’. ‘What if Egypt betrays Greece?’ the newspaper asked. “The Turkish president stated that the ministers of the two countries will meet and that the talks will develop”, it was decried in the news.

Athens, which constantly increases tensions in the Aegean and Mediterranean, almost issued a ministerial-level diplomacy attack with 3 Greek ministers Nikos Dendias, Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Miltiadis Varvitsiotis who went to Cairo and signed a series of agreements with Egypt.

To recap, after this move, which was interpreted as a response to Turkey’s Libya agreement, Athens has been locked in Egyptian – Turkish relations.