Turkish Defense Minister calls on Greece to avoid “provocative practices”

On Monday, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar called on Greece to avoid “the provocative practices it is carrying out against Ankara.”
Akar stressed, during a meeting with Chief of Staff, Yasar Golar, and army commanders, through “video conference” technology, stressing “the importance of Athens avoiding provocative and intransigent practices, in order to achieve prosperity for the people of Greece and the peoples of the region.”

He added that “Greece’s practices that are not worthy of the principles of good neighborliness, which are dominated by the language of threat, tension and escalation, stand in the way of establishing neighborly relations between Ankara and Athens.”

Commenting on the joint “eye of the falcon” maneuvers between Greece and Saudi Arabia in the eastern Mediterranean, Akar said, “It is impossible for such steps to reach some result.”

He explained that these maneuvers are “of no value” for Turkey and its armed forces.

And on Sunday, the Greek Chief of Staff, General Konstantinos Florus, announced the arrival of Saudi “F-15” fighters to the island of Crete to participate in the joint military exercises between the two countries.

Source: Anatolia