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Tension was caused at the joint meeting of parliamentary delegations of NATO and delegations from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries.
Turkish Defense Minister Houloussi Akar went out of control when he started taking questions after his speech from Greek MPs as well, causing the former to leave in a huff.
[/P]Out of control
Houloussi Akar shared Turkey's approaches to defense and security issues. The Turkish minister was asked to answer questions put to him by Lithuanian and Spanish MPs on developments in Ukraine and NATO. Then a Greek MP said the phrase "you continue to be occupiers in northern Cyprus" and as a result Houloussi Akar withdrew.
More specifically, during his speech the Turkish minister started to raise the issues of territorial waters, the demilitarization of the islands and the Cyprus problem, while he also accused Greece of supporting terrorism. Immediately then the Greek MPs replied that this was not the case and that Greece was fighting terrorism. They also told him that "you cannot talk about respecting the sovereignty of the territories of many countries when you have invaded Cyprus and question the sovereignty of many islands".
Houloussi Akar even took the floor again to respond angrily to the Greek MPs, who also referred to the Casus Belli, telling the Turkish Defence Minister that there can be no NATO alliance when Ankara is threatening the Casus Belli, in case Athens extends Greek territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles, as provided for in the Convention on the Law of the Sea.
This confrontation continued, according to the Sky correspondent, for 12 to 13 minutes until Houloussi Akar left the room.
Akar's claims
Akar among others claimed that: "Greek aircraft violated our airspace on April 27, there are radar images which we shared with allied countries. We responded on 28 April. We continue to insist that we are in favour of solving problems through international law and good neighbourly relations and dialogue. The three meetings in the framework of the MDGs took place, we said that we are waiting for the Greek side in Ankara for the fourth meeting in Ankara but we never got a reply for two years."
On the Cyprus issue he said: "If you say that the northern part of Cyprus is under occupation, you want to fight. Turkey has not occupied northern Cyprus, battles and coups took place there until '74. The lives of the Greeks were also in danger, until now both the northern and the southern part lived peacefully and quietly. It is important to see this. In 2014 the Turks accepted the Annan solution but the Greek side did not."
Source: in.gr
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