The Turkish Storm…

States are usually either expansionist or struggling for survival. Turkey belongs to the first category, while Greece and Cyprus belong to the second. The question is to what extent we can ultimately survive or not. And the answer is not a matter that concerns only Turkey, but also ourselves, as we face the danger of becoming a vilayet of the new Ottoman Empire.

So, can we avoid partition and Turkification? Or have we fallen into the delusion that things are fine, and that Turkey will not devour us simply because we belong to the EU? What, then, is the reality?

First, Turkey is becoming stronger by the day and more important than Greece and Cyprus to the EU, which—out of necessity—considers that it can rely on the Turkish army to deter any new Russian threat. Under these circumstances, not only does the EU refrain from putting pressure on Ankara, but it also views the Cyprus problem as a nuisance, as does Athens. Both will not hesitate to accept a Turkish solution, far removed from democratic principles, in order to appease the beast. Yet this will give birth, after the German Question, to a Turkish Question: namely, whether this relationship will produce a European Turkey, or rather a Turkish Europe—through geopolitical dependencies and demographic changes driven by Muslim populations. If the EU itself faces such dangers, how shall we be saved?

Second, the United States clearly wishes to pull Turkey out of Moscow’s embrace and to improve its relations with Israel. The allied opportunities that exist today for Cyprus will vanish. And what is called “compromise” will become submission. For who, after all, controls the Eastern Mediterranean? Turkey—since Greece is absent. And it keeps losing ground, continuously. In Libya, in Egypt. It is encircled from Albania to the eastern gates of the Aegean, which Ankara closes off.

Neither the US nor the EU, nor any potential allies or neighbors, will support us against Turkey. While Erdoğan adopted a policy of strength, we applied the policy of the carefree butterfly—moving aimlessly, without awareness or reason, here and there. Up and down. Without beginning, middle, or end. Appeasing and spineless. Athens and Nicosia resemble a feather in the wind. How, then, with appeasement and illusions, can they be saved from the Turkish storm of Neo-Ottomanism?