The Antidote to Alexandroupoli is the Karaagac Triangle

Does the thief in distress ever catch the master of the house? By God, make no mistake about it. We are trying to live in such a world, and it is so overwhelming that it boggles the mind. You don't need to look too hard to find examples, you don't need to look in the police reporter pages of newspapers, you don't need to go too far to find such details. Where is he? The thief is right next door. Our neighbor Greece. 

But first of all, I don't mean the people of Greece on the other side of the water. I mean the thief in chief, the center-right "New Democracy Party (ND)", which came to power alone in Greece in July 2019 through early general elections. And its recruited "Kolpoist", "Cretan" leader Kriakos Mitçotakis. One of Greece's new generation of politicians, Mitsotakis seems to have been raised for today's provocations.  

By the way, he is also the son of Constantine Mitsotakis, the former leader of the YDP and prime minister between 1989 and 1992. He was raised as an American recruit, starting from the American College of Athens. In other words, from the very beginning he was raised and recruited with an American attitude, like a Trojan Horse. The most prominent characteristic feature of his distinctive features is his "Kolpocu". "Kolpoculuk" is an expression frequently used in Istanbul's slang, finisher, stabby literature and has recently become a catchphrase on social media. It is a supersonic description of a person who says 'don't hold me in a fight' and then says 'why don't you hold me' when you let go. He tries to look tough in public, he is supposedly brave, but he is too much of a wimp to walk past a cemetery in the dark, as everyone knows. After Yatsı, when he leaves the café, he always follows someone to cross the cemetery. Some people call them "fake heroes" but I never see them in that sense, maybe I can say "cheap heroes" to describe these types. Can they be buddies one moment and blood brothers the next? They can, if they find the environment. 

In short, they are the type of people who serve the world with despicable, treacherous, dastardly, underhanded tactics. The second distinctive feature of Mitçotakis is that he comes from a family of "Greek Cretan terrorists", as indicated by the suffix "-takis". These people have been accustomed from the past to the present, to land on what does not belong to them and to collapse. Although the May 30, 1913 Treaty of London 'gave three quarters of Crete to Turkey', they have descended on Crete with massacres on the level of proto-genocide, just as they tried to do in Cyprus after the Bloody Christmas of 1964.  Is that all? 12 Islands are like this, Mosul - Kirkuk is like this, Crimea is like this, Western Thrace is like this and Libya is also occupied territories in violation of international treaties. 

So, have we been able to make our voices heard on this issue so far? More than 100 non-governmental organizations, which have recently decided to put their hands under the roof of the 'Turkish World Solidarity and Solidarity Association', are preparing to file lawsuits against the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), as well as human rights organizations. (1) Indeed, this situation has been heartening, albeit a little. 

Unfortunately, our country is surrounded from east and west by two studio projects and an artificial nation state. This is not a matter of today, of course, but a legacy we inherited from the Ottomans. "Armenia" with its "3 T" initiative in the east and "Greece" with its "4 T" attitude in the west. In the east, they focus on the Armenian genocide allegation with the "3 T's" of "Recognition, Compensation and Territory". The other is "Harassment, Provocation, Threats and Defamation" in the west, i.e. the "4 T's", i.e. the "Show of Impudence and Impudence" that ignores international law and international treaties. The issue is to try to turn Turkey into an "aggressor", an "aggressor" or a "rogue state" by using all available means.  

In other words, in their and the US's eyes, Turkey is a state that threatens global peace, violates human rights on a massive scale, supports terrorism, is unpredictable and does not recognize international rules. For them, Turkey, as 35 US congressmen wrote in their letter to President Biden to deny F-16s, is a country that is responsible for more death and destruction on the sovereign territory of NATO allies and partners such as Greece and Cyprus, who deliberately bomb civilian targets such as hospitals and schools in Iraq, Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, and who deliberately use US weapons to commit war crimes. (2)  

The starting point for all this is the "Additional Protocol to the Mutual Defense and Cooperation Treaty" signed between the United States and Greece in 1990, which was renewed and extended for five years on October 14, 2021 with the "Additional Protocol exchanged on October 5, 2019" and, if there is no objection after 2026, it is as if it is an eternity treaty. In this way, the US has become Greece's "surrogate state" in a proxy war.  Greece seems to have gone to another dimension with the American wind at its back, especially with the similar treaty it signed with France in Paris on September 28, 2021. So, he has the only nuclear power of the European continent behind him, and he bragged and used it to threaten Turkey. Mitsotakis' statement in the Greek parliament, "We know who threatens whom with 'casus belli'", referring to Turkey's "casus belli" decision, and then his interpretation of the agreement reached with France with the words "In the event of an attack, Europe's only nuclear power and the only EU country that is a permanent member of the UN Security Council will stand by our country" are documents of Athens' use of the treaty as an open threat against Turkey. (3)

The current situation is really thought-provoking. The US State Department's statement "Greece's sovereignty over the islands cannot be questioned" regarding the Ankara-Athens tension reveals an organized approach behind closed doors. 

President Erdoğan has accused Greece of occupying the demilitarized islands in the Aegean Sea on legal grounds and said that he is "ready to do what is necessary", with the implication that "we can come suddenly one night". But as it turns out, no further words are needed. This situation directly reveals an organized solidarity. This is a kind of urgency and effort to legitimize thuggery. 

The joint Turkey-Greece statement from the US and NATO that followed does not cover the climax of this disgrace. The joint statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, that Turkey and Greece should resolve their disputes through dialogue cannot cover the US attitude of disregarding the law. The reason is clear, the US has not recognized the Lausanne Peace Treaty and it seems to be clinging to this armor. However, the British maps of 1939 and the US maps of 1957 clearly show that the 18 islands and islets occupied by Greece belong to Turkey, as documented in their official documents. (4) 

The United States has and continues to stand behind Greece, which ignores all international treaties and international law. The Lausanne Peace Treaty is the most important international legal document that constitutes the basis for the existence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Turkey. The islands in the Sea of Islands (Aegean) can be categorized into two groups. 

The first group includes the islands ceded to Greece between April 24, 1830, when Greece gained its independence, and July 24, 1923, when the Lausanne Peace Treaty was signed. 

In the second group, there are islands that were ceded to Greece under the Lausanne Peace Treaty and the Paris-Italian Peace Treaty of February 10, 1947, provided that they have a non-military status. 

There has been no transfer of sovereignty for the islands, islets and rocks within 3 miles of Turkey's territorial waters. Greece claims that the changes in the international arena have abolished the status established by the treaties and that it owns all of the territories not specified to be ceded to Turkey in the Lausanne Peace Treaty. On the other hand, Turkey argues that the provisions of the treaties are valid and that its sovereignty rights continue in the islands, islets and rocks whose rights it did not waive in the Lausanne Peace Treaty. (4) 

According to the Lausanne Peace Treaty, the islands in the Sea of Islands, which were left to Greece on condition that they have a non-military status, and the Alexandroupoli base, which has been turned into a US base, are demilitarized zones. The islands in the Sea of Islands and 30 km. of the Greek-Turkish border in Western Thrace have demilitarized status. Article 1 of the "Convention on the Thracian Border" signed on July 24, 1923 stipulates that a 30 km strip on either side of Turkey's borders with Greece and Bulgaria shall be demilitarized and no aircraft of any country shall fly over this strip. 

The "Karaağaç Triangle" region on the left bank of the Evros on the other side of the Evros River was left to Turkey as a war repair due to the genocidal massacres committed by the Greek Army in Western Anatolia. Turkey and the Allied Powers mutually agreed to waive war reparations. Greece accepted the burden of repairing the damages arising from the destruction it had caused, but Turkey reluctantly gave up its claim for compensation. This was recognized as war reparations under Article 59. In return, Karaağaç was ceded to Turkey and the Greeks living there were included in the scope of the exchange with an additional protocol issued on the same day as the Treaty of Lausanne for the Karaağaç region. 

Protocol No. 15 is titled "Protocol signed on July 24, 1923 by the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Italy, Japan, Greece and Turkey concerning the Land of Karaağaç and the Islands of Imbros and Bozcaada". In this protocol, the name Karaağaç is mentioned only once, in the first paragraph of Article 3 of the protocol. In Article 1 of the Protocol, Karaağaç is referred to as "the piece of land to be returned to Turkey" and in Article 2 as "the piece of land in question." (6) 

However, Prof. Dr. Çağrı Erhan, in one of his articles, states the number of protocols signed in addition to Lausanne as 18, but he forgot to include Protocol No. 15, which is one of the most important of the additional protocols and which leaves the Karaağaç region and the islands of Imbros and Bozcaada to Turkey. We hope it was not intentional. In other words, in the Karaağaç region, Turkey has a land border with Greece. The Antidote to 'Alexandroupolis: The "Karaagac Triangle". The "Karaağaç Triangle" is the biggest gain of Lausanne against the US base in Alexandroupoli. It constitutes the starting point of the operation to be carried out. 

Let us explain this situation again. The sovereignty of the non-military status places is not given to Greece. Only the right of use is given.  Greece is the occupier of the 18 islands and islets it has occupied within Turkish territorial waters, and has armed and militarized the islands that have been granted only the right of use, provided that they are non-military.  It has created a de facto situation by portraying Turkey as an aggressor and aggressor and by wrapping itself in the armor of the right to self-defense. If you create such a situation, Turkey has the right to recourse, Greece is the occupier of our islands, Turkey has the right to say leave this place, get out. The 1923 Treaties of Lausanne and 1947 Treaties of Paris are clear and unambiguous. 

Our last word is to Greece, which has handed over its country to the USA turnkey.  It is known that the USA, which has evolved into a 'Mega Power' in the unipolar world after the Cold War, has more than 800 military bases spread in many parts of the world outside its borders. With the military technologies developed to date, the US establishes bases in various parts of the world, sometimes directly on its own behalf and sometimes under the mask of NATO, in the context of protecting the regimes aligned with it and deterring hostile states by intervening quickly and effectively. In fact, this situation is reflected in the official documents of the US. It is clearly shown on the maps of this famous document 'US Foreign Policy Objectives & Overseas Military Installations', which includes important functions on behalf of the US. However, it should not be forgotten that these military bases sometimes create problems with allied states and even serve the function of "intimidation" against elected governments and the people. Yes, dear readers, it should not be forgotten that the US has a very difficult time getting out of the countries it enters and that it causes blood and tears to the people of those countries. As Neyzen Tevfik once said, "They did not leave as they came; some left their dogs, some their lice. And some left p..... dear readers.

Footnotes:

(1) Gülsüm İncekaya, “Türk STK'ler Girit'in iadesi için dava açmaya hazırlanıyor”, Anadolu Ajansı, 13.05.2020; https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/turk-stkler-giritin-iadesi-icin-dava-acmaya-hazirlaniyor/1839039/Erişim Tarihi 11.09.2022/ 

(2) Mezopotamya Ajansi, “Biden'a Türkiye mektubu: F-16 satmayın” 9 Temmuz 2022; http://mezopotamyaajansi35.com/tum-haberler/content/view/176708/Erişim Tarihi 11.09.2022/

(3) Gülsüm İncekaya, “Yunanistan, Türkiye'ye karşı sırtını 'nükleer güç' sahibi Fransa'ya dayıyor”, 14.10.2021; https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/analiz/yunanistan-turkiyeye-karsi-sirtini-nukleer-guc-sahibi-fransaya-dayiyor/2391681/Erişim Tarihi 11.09.2022/

(4) Tunca Bengin, Sokaktaki İnsan, “Bozacının şahidi şıracı...”, Milliyet Gazetesi, 10 Eylül 2022; https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/tunca-bengin/ Erişim Tarihi 11.09.2022/

(5) Fuat İnce, “Lozan Barış Antlaşması ve Ege Adaları”, Ankara Üniversitesi Türk İnkılâp Tarihi Enstitüsü Atatürk Yolu Dergisi, Sa. 53, (Lozan Antlaşması Özel Sayısı), Ankara, 2013, s. 101.

(6) Ali Ulvi Özdemir, Lozan’da Başarıyı Ölçmek: Konular Bazında Bir Değerlendirme, Ankara Üniversitesi Türk İnkılâp Tarihi Enstitüsü Atatürk Yolu Dergisi, Sa 53, (Lozan Antlaşması Özel Sayısı), 2013, s. 179