Türkiye‘s vice chairman lashed out on Friday over a photograph of neighboring Greece‘s army chief posing on an Aegean Sea island that must be unarmed underneath worldwide treaties, situated simply miles from the Turkish coast.
“Türkiye allows no such photos and will do what’s necessary,” mentioned Fuat Oktay in an interview by a Turkish YouTube channel, referring to the picture by Greek Chief of General Staff Gen. Konstantinos Floros on the island of Keci (Pserimos), 8 kilometers (about 5 miles) southwest of Türkiye’s Bodrum peninsula.
Citing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s oft-repeated warning that Türkiye might “come suddenly one night,” Oktay mentioned Ankara’s phrases weren’t “empty” and that it could do “as it says.”
The Turkish vice chairman additionally famous that Türkiye was on observe to grow to be an vitality hub because of its relations with different international locations, including that “credibility is required for both international relations and diplomacy,” he added.
After talks along with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Erdoğan had introduced that Ankara and Moscow would work collectively on constructing a pure fuel hub in Thrace after a proposal from Russia.
