Turkey aiming for a master-and-servant relationship

Ankara's constant bullying of Greece has, naturally, not been missed by observers and commentators. Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan is definitely setting the pace, but the threats and pompous remarks coming from the lips of government ministers in Ankara are no less aggressive.

Defense Minister Hulusi Akar recently claimed that Turkey controls the Aegean, the Black Sea, the Southeastern Mediterranean and Cyprus. Everything, in other words, belongs to Turkey. Ankara later tried to recast Akar's remarks, perhaps because they were somewhat reminiscent of Mussolini's "mare nostrum" that risked upsetting Moscow. But the essence remains the same.

After all, Turkish fighter jets were sent to fly over Agathonisi when it had been reported that Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would be visiting the eastern Aegean island on the anniversary of the beginning of Greece...