Discussing the defense reinforcement of the Greek islands with Israeli weaponry, the Turkish media continues to provoke, this time with the publishing of maps.
The hysteria over Israeli-made missile defense systems being deployed on the Greek islands continues in Turkey, while at the same time, there are reports that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is ready to replace Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
"There is information about Fidan... We are talking about parapolitical matters, but given what is happening and what we are experiencing, these are no longer just parapolitical matters," said Cumhuriyet's political analyst, Mustafa Balbay.
"Erdoğan, in Fidan's place, will appoint İbrahim Kalın, the current director of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MİT), as Foreign Minister. This will reduce the negative impact of removing Fidan from his duties, as Kalın is the director of MİT," he continued. "There is talk that President Erdoğan is looking for a replacement formula."
Meanwhile, the political earthquake in Turkey continues with a circle of big-name journalists and presenters allegedly involved in a drug scandal.
"There is a big political name in the cocaine scandal with the presenters, the directors of major networks are involved, they went with the presenters/escorts to close cases," Turkish media reported.
The Turkish judiciary has intervened, with the opposition claiming that "the journalists with the cocaine were traveling on the presidential plane."
Regarding the defensive reinforcement of the Greek islands with Israeli weapons, the Turkish media continues to raise the tone, publishing maps and lists putting the islands in the crosshairs.
"The fact of the deployment of Israeli missiles on the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean is very disturbing to Ankara," according to Istanbul-based Greek reporter Manolis Kostidis.
Habertürk presenter Dilek Gül commented that "along with its land borders, Greece is placing missile systems on the Aegean islands. This is why there is Turkey's continuous reaction to Greece, as the islands where Israeli weapons are normally placed, according to international treaties, are under a demilitarization regime.
"And we at Habertürk wanted to see in detail which islands are being militarized. We prepared this map here. Thassos, Samothrace, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, Lesvos, which we know well, Chios, and Psara. These islands, according to the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, are under the sovereignty of Greece under the condition of demilitarization.
"The islands of the Eastern Aegean, which we also know as the Dodecanese, were ceded to Greece by the Treaty of Paris in 1947 on the condition of demilitarization. These are normally 14 islands. In total, Greece is said to have militarized at least 16 of the islands since the 1960s. Turkey is following the issue closely... However, because Israel is also beginning to get involved in the issue, this issue is starting to go to another level."
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