Now a former Turkish prime minister announces to the press [source in Greek], rather nonchalantly, that, of course, the Turkish intelligence services received secret funds to send arsonists to burn Greek forests in the 1990s and thus cause both economic damage and political destabilization.
Mr. Mesut Yilmaz, speaking to a Turkish newspaper, explained that these black operations had been approved by PM Tansu Ciller and that the funds comprised part of the overall intelligence budget which, in Turkey, is directly controlled from the top.
Those in this country who would speed to declare the Yilmaz statement as taken “out of context” lest “Greek-Turkish friendship” receives a strategic blow won’t surprise us at all with their eagerness to serve the cause of peace. Neither are we surprised by the Greek foreign ministry announcement that it will wait for “clarification” from Turkey concerning the Yilmaz allegations before it takes any “action” (which is always in the form of a worthless diplomatic note expressing Greek exasperation at Turkish hostile acts, which a Turkish middle rank diplomat duly deposits in the dustbin).
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Yilmaz though. His deadpan honesty leaves little room to the self-appointed Greek pro-Turkey propagandists -- the very same who turn a blind eye to Turkey’s strategic offensive against Greece with illegal Muslim immigration as the main weapon; who dismiss Turkey’s air orgy over the Aegean as an “aberration;” who turn a blind eye to Turkish judicial investigations which have revealed extensive conspiracies by Turkey’s military to foment a shooting war with Greece in the hope of destabilizing the Islamist Erdogan regime; and who continue to parrot their lesson concerning the right of Turkey to enter the EU as a full-time member.
We regret to recognize that even this naked admission on the part of a former head of the Turkish government will pass unexploited by the disintegrated Greek state.
It would be indeed too much to ask a Greek government, installed at the behest of Germany and France in a thinly-veiled “democratic” constitutional coup, would dare raise even token defense of our national interests by demanding Turkish restitution and suspension of the Turkish EU accession process.
This latest news from Turkey demonstrates all too vividly the type of challenge that can emerge at any time to put the “transitional” Greek government in a bind and reduce even further our sovereignty, already lying in tatters thanks to the terrible price of cleptocracy.
Yesterday, the forests. Today, the waves of Muslim illegals. Tomorrow, an island? … two islands? A piece of Thrace? The menu is open.