Irritation and embarrassment has been prevailing in Ankara since Tuesday night on the occasion of Kyriakos Mitsotakis' historic speech to the US Congress.
What the Greek prime minister said on the Cyprus problem clearly stated his position on not accepting the two-state solution, which implies the partition of the island country provoked the anger of Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay who called it "theatre" and a "show".
"You watched the theatre about Turkey and the TBC in the US Congress, which we call an ally. Standing ovations for the Greek Prime Minister who opposes the two-state solution in Cyprus. To act as if Turkish Cypriots do not exist on the island is a very unpleasant situation," Oktay said.
"There is no time to waste with the shows of the Greek-Greek Cypriot duo, which contribute nothing towards reaching a solution. There is no time. We see the truth and show it to everyone. We will continue to defend the two-state solution in Cyprus, on the basis of sovereign equality," he continued, adding that Greece "is playing the 12-mile game in the Aegean and constantly violating our airspace."
Indeed, such was the anger of Fuat Oktay that he went so far as to accuse our country of violating Turkey's airspace. "I call on the US to embrace common sense and not to encourage with applause efforts to create a contrary perception of Greece, which is playing the 12-mile game in the Aegean and constantly violating our airspace. In these days, when regional cooperation is more important than ever due to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, everyone should think twice about what they stand up and applaud, what they support, what they applaud and what they utter."
Source: Proto Thema
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