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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Can Yılmaz, Türkiye’de tatil fiyatlarında Türk vatandaşına çıkan farkı eleştirdi: 🔹 “Almanya’dan geliyorsan 3 gün 4 gece 20 bin TL.” 🔹 “İstanbul’dan geliyorsan aynı tatil 56 bin TL.” 🔹 “İngiltere pasaportuyla 26 bin TL’ye kalıyorsun.” 🔹 “Aradaki 30 bin TL Türk vatandaşı olmanın cezası mı?” 🔹 “Dışarıdan geliyormuş gibi rezervasyon yapıyorsun.” 🔹 “Sonra otele gelince Türk olduğun anlaşılıyor.” 🔹 “Bu kez 30 bin TL daha istiyorlar.” 🔹 “Ben 26 bine Yunanistan’a giderim.” 🔹 “Halkidiki’de kalırım.” 🔹 “Mis gibi tatilimi yaparım.” 🔹 “Kirazı kiraz, çileği çilek tadında yerim.” 🔹 “Enayilik devri bitti.”
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
🇬🇷🇹🇷⚠️There is a persistent and deeply misleading framing of Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean, built around a manufactured false dilemma: that Greece must exercise restraint in asserting its legal sovereign rights in order to preserve stability, maintain a delicate balance, and avoid provoking Turkey into conflict. The notion of a “balance” that must be preserved presupposes two parties with symmetrical but competing claims, both operating in good faith within a shared legal framework. ❌That is not the situation in the Aegean. ‼️Turkey’s claims do not seek to preserve balance; they seek to displace Greek sovereignty across vast areas of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Maps and doctrines promoted by Turkish officials have extended claims toward Crete and depict large portions of the Aegean-with numerous Greek islands isolated and enclaved-within areas of Turkish jurisdiction. ⚠️These are not defensive claims made in pursuit of “balance.” They are expressions of offensive revisionism. 🚫Turkey’s casus belli against any Greek extension of its territorial sea to 12 nautical miles is not a negotiating position. It is a threat of war against the exercise of an internationally recognised legal right. No country operating in good faith within international law issues such threats. None. ❌This is a false dilemma, engineered to legitimize Turkish revisionism while portraying exercising Greek rights as provocation. The tension exists only because Turkey has made it so-through illegal claims, fabricated disputes, and a doctrine of creeping encroachment. The dilemma is Turkish-authored. Greece did not create it, yet Greece is repeatedly asked to absorb its costs. ⚠️When Greece refrains from extending its territorial sea, it is not preserving peace-it is perpetuating instability. Every year that Greece declines to exercise its rights, it normalizes Turkey’s revisionist claims. ⚠️Non-assertion does not freeze the status quo; it gradually allows unlawful claims to gain political traction through repetition and signals to Ankara that bullying works. It invites further incursions, grey-zone tactics, and renewed demands for the demilitarization of Greek islands, even as Turkey threatens these islands and maintains substantial military forces in the region and disregards its own obligations. 🇪🇺Europe shares responsibility here. A Union that hesitates to defend a member state’s unambiguous legal rights against revisionist intimidation weakens its own credibility as a guarantor of a rules-based order. Silence is not neutrality-it is a subsidy to the aggressor. International law exists precisely to prevent larger powers from bullying smaller states into perpetual self-limitation. ❌The Aegean does not require Greece to shrink its presence for “peace.” It requires Turkey to abandon irredentist fantasies and accept that the sea is governed by law-not by threats.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
The United States, Greece, Israel and Cyprus sent a clear message from Houston: cooperation is gaining ground in the EastMed. As countries invest in connectivity, energy security and shared interests, the space for coercion, unilateralism and regional disruption continues to shrink. ekathimerini.com/politics/fo…
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
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Hey @RTErdogan, gobble the fuck off you stupid 🦃
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Erdoğan is scared. His regime is terrified by this. Cyprus, Greece, Israel, and the United States have launched the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Centre in Houston and agreed to develop a joint energy cooperation roadmap by the end of the year. The initiative, announced during the 3 1 Energy Dialogue, will focus on energy security, offshore natural gas development, energy infrastructure, technological innovation, and research cooperation. The project further strengthens strategic coordination among the four countries in the Eastern Mediterranean and represents another setback for Ankara's efforts to expand its influence over the region's energy resources and maritime affairs.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
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This alliance can change the Mediterranean.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
New: a significant development for the Eastern Mediterranean.The East Med Energy Center launches today at Rice University's Baker Institute in Houston, establishing a permanent platform for cooperation among US, Greece, Cyprus, Israel in energy, innovation, research, technology
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
“Washington cannot continue treating Erdogan as an indispensable ally and harmless irritant. A NATO member that shields Hamas, threatens Israel, pressures Cyprus and Greece, buys Russian systems, and obstructs alliance cooperation should face consequences. Peace will not come from pretending Turkey is emotional, misunderstood, or useful. It will come from making clear that Erdogan’s neo-imperial project will meet prepared ground, superior intelligence, regional coalitions, and costs he cannot control.”
Erdoğan is testing how much anti-Israel aggression NATO will tolerate. Jose Lev Alvarez argues Turkey’s support for Hamas and pressure on Cyprus and Greece demand consequences. meforum.org/mef-observer/erd…
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Eastern Mediterranean ⚡️ 3 1 Partnership 🇬🇷🇮🇱🇨🇾🇺🇸
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives. How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers ? Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
This isn’t just about Cyprus. Two EU members signed a bilateral defense deal -a routine sovereign act. Turkey- a third country which occupies EU territory- threatens force. The EU, once again, is absent. Unless your border faces Russia, the EU’s foreign policy doesn’t apply to you. The collapse of EU credibility has names. They know who they are. @eucopresident @vonderleyen @kajakallas
Turkey warned it would respond forcefully to any threat against Turkish Cypriots after Cyprus signed a defense agreement with France bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
PSA: there is no such thing as "TRNC airspace" You cannot designate airspace to an occupied territory that is not recognized by any state other than the occupier
Turkish MoD rejects Greek media claims that Turkish jets harassed aircraft carrying the Greek defense minister and European officials. Four of six aircraft flying between Greece and Southern Cyprus on 7 June entered TRNC airspace, prompting two Turkish F-16s to take off as a precaution. Türkiye says its aircraft remained in TRNC airspace and did not harass the aircraft or violate the airspace of the Greek Cypriot administration.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Ισραηλινοί: ”Η συμμαχία με την Ελλάδα ενισχύεται: Η Αθήνα αγοράζει το διαμάντι της Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας από το Ισραήλ” #Ελλαδα #Ισραηλ #Greece #Israel directus.gr/israilinoi-i-sym…
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
#Greece #Israel The Hellenic Navy teaches Israel one hard lesson: how to read Turkish pressure through islands, straits, air-sea seams, and escalation thresholds. Israeli-Greek-Cypriot cooperation already follows that logic. Not all of it is public. israelhayom.com/2026/06/10/i…
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Turkey is advancing a domestic bill that openly disregards international law and undermines Greece’s sovereign rights in the Aegean, while demanding that Greece behave responsibly. The most absurd part? Turkish FM claiming that Turkey “respects international law” while openly rejecting the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea-the legal foundation of modern maritime rights. This is not diplomacy. It is not foreign policy. It is bullying, and bullies don’t stop when ignored. They stop when there is a cost. Greece has an answer. Extending its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles would be fully consistent with international law, a sovereign and unilateral decision, and one that would be devastating to most of Turkey’s Aegean claims. That is not escalation. That is sovereign right. ✅Applying international law should promote clarity, order, and peaceful resolution. The window to respond is now, not October.
Turkey signals advance of maritime bill dlvr.it/TSzcRz
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
The alliance he is scared of. Make istanbul constantinople again
Şam ve Beyrut, İstanbul’un iki kardeş şehridir. Türkiye’nin güvenliği sadece Hatay’dan değil; Halep’ten başlar, Şam’dan başlar, Beyrut’tan başlar. Kardeşlerimizin ülkelerinde hiçbir emrivakiye müsamaha göstermeyiz, kardeşlerimize yönelik hiçbir saldırıya göz yummayız.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Erdogan is a paper tiger. When he shot down Putin’s fighter jet, he was so scared that he rushed to make up with the Russian dictator by buying s400 Russian air defense, and was thus thrown out of the F35 manufacture and ownership group. He’s been begging America since then to take him back. His army is corrupt and infested with nepotism at the expense of meritocracy.
Akdeniz’de, özellikle Kıbrıs Adası’nda bir fitne ateşinin yakılmak istendiğini görüyoruz; bu gelişmeleri yakından takip ediyoruz. Çok açık söylüyorum: Eğer Doğu Akdeniz’de Türkiye’nin ve Kıbrıs Türkü’nün hak ve hukukuna kastedilirse cevabımız çok net olur, çok da sert olur.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
Netanyahu cares about Kurds,Armenian and the Greeks more than the entire world, he is pro civilisation who understands history well. Turkey is a genocidal country built on stolen land on Armenians,Greeks. It also occupies half of Cyprus, it has k!lled 50,000 Kurds,1.2m Armenians and 1m Greeks. It has turned one of the oldest church “Hagia Sophia” into mosque.
The antisemitic dictator Erdoğan – who is committing genocide against the Kurds, supports the Hamas terrorist organization, oppresses his own people and imprisons political rivals – is the last person who can lecture the State of Israel on morality. The State of Israel and the IDF, the most moral army in the world, will continue to take forceful action against Iran and its proxies, which threaten the Middle East and the entire world.
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Grecanicus 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪 retweeted
In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives. How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers? Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.
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