Will Erdogan voice challenges to Greek sovereignty at NATO summit?

After Turkey struck a deal with Sweden and Finland, that requires them to change their counter-terrorism laws to suit Ankara and that will thus permit NATO to unanimously issue invitations for them to join the Alliance tomorrow, Athens is focused on whether Erdogan will table his demands for the demilitarisation of Greek Eastern Aegean islands at the ongoing NATO summit.

Erdogan has already stated that he plans to express his annoyance over the creation of a new US base in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis, enshrined in the amended US-Greece Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement, at a meeting with US President Joe Biden planned for tomorrow, a protest that clearly will be summarily dismissed as it involves core US regional interests.

In expressing his consternation with the US bases in Greece, Erdogan underlined that they target Russia, further bolstering the impression, based on the fact that Turkey is the sole NATO member-state that has imposed no sanctions against Russia, that Ankara has for months been acting as a proxy of Moscow.

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"Five plus four, a total of nine American bases have been established in Greece. Well, why did you create them? Against whom have you established them? Their answer is that we created them against Russia. What do you mean when you say, 'We created them against Russia? Your issue and your only issue is the S-400s [missile systems Turkey purchased from Russia, leading to an effective US arms embargo on Turkey, until now]. You are constantly preoccupied with the S-400s. All of this is verbiage. We will raise these issues in the discussion at the meeting we will have tonight or tomorrow with Biden," Erdogan declared.

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