A ballot box hanging over the Aegean

With the Turkish elections set for May 14, we are now entitled to hope that it will not be long before the date of our own elections is announced, ending those cryptic government statements. Obviously, every prime minister, when he is in the position Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in today, wants his party to benefit as much as possible from the ambiguity, until he finally chooses a Sunday that is most favorable for his plans. But the seemingly never-ending plucking of daisies erodes even more deeply the credibility of politics and politicians in general.

As things stand, May 14 is of decisive importance both for Turkey and our own country. We should not, however, harbor any illusions that Turkey's expansionist policy will change if Recep Tayyip Erdogan is defeated after 20 years of omnipotence. The very aggressive rhetoric of the Turkish president's divided opponents and their...