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Do the recent developments trick the crisis in the Aegean?

In history, many states and events have provoked Greece against Turkey, caused deep pain to our country, and it is full of events that have always ended with the frustration of Greece.

In history, many states and events have provoked Greece against Turkey, caused deep pain to our country, and it is full of events that have always ended with the frustration of Greece.
In the First World War, with a wrong strategy that served Germany's dreams of Asian domination, Greece, which saw that the Ottoman Empire, which entered the war on the side of Germany just one day after the start of the war on 28 July 1914, was on the defeated side, three years after the start of the war in order to get a share of the plunder. It sided with the Allied Powers in 1917.
Together with the allied states, the Ottoman Empire was defeated and its lands were shared between the allied states. In return for their contribution to the war, the Greeks wanted Izmir and its surroundings, which they called Asia Minor, the pearl of Anatolia.
The Greek Venizelos asked for help, claiming that his Christians around İzmir and Aydın were in danger and would be destroyed by the Turks.
The first movement against the Greek occupation was seen in the youth mass gathered in Izmir Turkish Hearth. The night before the invasion, the arsenal was emptied and the people prepared to resist.
On the morning of May 15, the Greek forces landed at the Izmir dock. They were greeted with wild joy and applause by the Greeks. As the occupation forces approached the İzmir barracks, a Turkish young man who could not contain his excitement any longer, Journalist Hasan Tahsin, the bullet he fired not only aroused the Turkish nation, but also revealed the brutal face of the aggressors. they were martyred by being pierced.
The invaders were forced to shout "Long live Venizelos" by force, the Turkish soldiers and the people. Those who did not obey were martyred on the spot. Erkanıharp Miralay Süleyman Fethi Bey, holding the cap that was wanted to be taken off his head, said: "I won't shout," and was martyred immediately.
When the invading Greek atrocities in Izmir were heard by the Anatolian people, rallies were held from time to time. The Izmir massacre stirred the Turkish nation. The Turkish nation, who felt the pain caused by this event from the very depths of its soul, found salvation in taking up arms. established the first national defense organization. This organization grew, became stronger, swept through all of Anatolia, and as it is known, thousands of Greek soldiers who set foot in Anatolia, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, left Anatolia in shame with the rise of the valiant Turkish nation devoted to freedom and independence.
A second provocation of Greece started in the 60s with the relapse of the dream of ENOSIS by ultra-nationalist Greek groups and Greeks. They started the massacres in Cyprus starting from 1960 with the strategy of connecting Cyprus to Greece, which they called the Great Ideal (MEGALO IDEA).
Turkey, as the Guarantor country, took the issue to the United Nations. With the support of the other guarantor country, England, the United Nations Military began its mission in order to prevent the massacres in Cyprus, but the raw dream within them did not stop, they continued their attacks.
In the face of these attacks, the Turkish Cypriot people were organized under the leadership of heroes such as Rauf DENKTAS, Fazıl KÜÇÜK, Brigadier General KARABELEN, and a Cyprus resistance organization was established. This organization saved the Turkish Cypriot people from the complete massacre, but when the non-stop attacks by the supporters of Greek and Greek enosis continued, Turkey carried out the Cyprus Peace Operation on July 20, 1974, using its guarantor right. Many of its soldiers were martyred, but Cyprus, who died for it, became a homeland for the Turkish nation. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was established.

What's going on in Alexandroupoli lately?

The Turkish city, which was given to Bulgaria with the Bucharest Treaty in 1913 at the end of the Second Balkan War, was given to Greece in 1919 by the Allied Powers with the Neuilly (Nöyyi) Treaty after the First World War. The population of Alexandroupoli, a port city in Western Thrace, is around 50 thousand.
Located just across Bozcaada, one of our two key islands in the North Aegean, Alexandroupoli has a very strategic location and holds the entrance to the Komotini-Xanthi road where the Turkish population is most concentrated.
What does the base established by the USA in Alexandroupoli recently, the weapons pile and the exercise with England and France mean?
The apparent strategy is to keep this place as a base and plan logistics shipments to Eastern Europe against Russia via Bulgaria and Romania via the train line located here, and in a way calculate a second logistics route against the Straits.
The fact that the USA, together with England and France, together with Alexandroupolis and Xanthi and the island of Crete under the name of the exercise, builds up a very heavy weapon build-up does not comply with the spirit of NATO alliance.
PKK-YPG terrorist organizations stationed on the borders of Turkey, Iraq and Syria and the international group supporting these organizations It is under the siege of the wood market. In addition, every weapon or military build-up of Turkey in the western region or in the Aegean islands in violation of the treaties creates a new spiral and is of a nature that will make Greece's crude dreams swell. Any crisis we may experience will pamper Greece with a burst of self-confidence and cause it to resort to aggressive policies with dreams of dominating the Aegean.

Great States Prevent Great Wars

There is already a risk of hot conflict in many parts of the world. The prevention of border disputes, ethnic conflicts or disputes over exclusive economic zones before they turn into a hot conflict is prevented today by the common policies of organizations and states with global influence.
The peace and tranquility of the region, which includes extremely sensitive and historical conflicts such as the Aegean region, is only possible if Greece stays away from provocative effects and with the peace and tranquility supportive policies of our NATO allies, which manage international strategies.
Turkey's trust in its neighbors and allies can only be achieved by sticking to the alliance and friendship promised to Turkey, which was established in 1948 to contribute to world peace and acts as the easternmost stronghold of NATO, to which Turkey joined by paying a great Korean war price.

Dr. Cemal Balıkçı
Ph.D Cemal Balıkçı
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  • 11.11.2021
  • Time : 4 min
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