Antonis Samaras has hit back at remarks by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a morning interview, in which he said, among other things, that “He himself does not remember how he handled Turkey when he was prime minister”.
In a statement, the former prime minister said: “Instead of worrying about the poor outcome of the UN vote on the unlawful Turkish-Libyan actions, the prime minister is preoccupied with whether my government held talks with Turkey in ...2012-2014. Mr Mitsotakis seems to think Greeks have very short memories.
Let me remind him. At the time, there was no illegal Turkey-Libya memorandum. There were no prolonged Turkish NAVTEX notices in the Aegean. The ‘Blue Homeland’ was not Turkey’s official doctrine against Greece.
We did not back the leading figure of the ‘Blue Homeland’, Sinirlioglu, at any OSCE; Turkey is now provocatively promoting him for UN secretary-general. The events at Kasos had not taken place. Hagia Sophia had not become a mosque. We did not whitewash Turkey internationally by signing a Treaty of Friendship with it.
In short, at the time Turkey had created no fait accompli against us! However hard Mr Mitsotakis tries to supposedly feed people with ‘pizzas’ and ‘Greek salads’, the Greek people know, judge and compare...”