Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is escalating his rhetoric of provocations against Greece and Cyprus.
"Turkey remains firm in its stance against Sweden and Finland's NATO membership until Ankara's previous demands are met," the Turkish president said, speaking at the congress of his ruling party.
"We are not changing our position on further NATO expansion until all our expectations are fulfilled," Erdogan said."
"There are many examples, from the borders of the National Pact to the Aegean islands, from the return of Greece and France to NATO to the Greek Cypriot side's accession to the EU. In none of them have the promises made been kept," he continued, arguing that Turkey and its citizens do not have the right to be indifferent to what is happening around them and that it will continue to implement its policy in the Mediterranean, Syria and everywhere else.
The Turkish president also said that inflation figures for the month of May - when the annual consumer price index soared to a 24-year high - showed that inflation is now on a downward trend and that his government is working on ways to provide relief to citizens and combat soaring prices.
Inflation soared to 73.5 percent in May - fuelled by the fall in the Turkish lira, rising energy costs and the war in Ukraine - although the figure was slightly lower than economists' estimates.
Source: cnn.gr
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