Hadjivassiliou: With casus belli, Turkey will not join SAFE and European defence funds

“Kyriakos Mitsotakis‘ connection to the UN was clear: arsenic agelong arsenic Turkey keeps the casus belli successful force, it cannot articulation the SAFE mechanics and assertion European funds for defense,” said among others, Secretary of International Relations and EU of the New Democracy, Mr. Tasos Hadjivassiliou, successful his involution connected OPEN connected Monday afternoon.

He said that astatine the aforesaid time, Greece “has already secured information successful the F-35 programme and it is estimated that earlier the extremity of the decade, the archetypal deliveries volition beryllium made,” portion helium besides stressed the value of the Prime Minister‘s gathering with the Ecumenical Patriarch and the caput of Lockheed Martin.

Commenting connected the cancellation of the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting, Hatzivassiliou said: “If we presume that Turkey cancelled it due to the fact that it was annoyed, the reasons are obvious. It is annoyed due to the fact that the authorities is proceeding with Chevron southbound of Crete, due to the fact that Greek positions are recognized and the amerciable memorandum is erstwhile again being rammed through.”

Referring to the Trump-Erdogan meeting, helium spoke of “good idiosyncratic chemistry” betwixt the 2 leaders, but stressed that “Turkey’s roadworthy to the F-35 remains agelong and difficult.” As helium explained, “it is improbable for present that Ankara volition rejoin the program, arsenic Trump volition not springiness thing without quid pro quo.” Among these, Washington is asking Ankara to “improve relations with Israel, vigor decoupling from Russia, and resolving the S-400 issue.” All of these, helium noted, “cannot beryllium done successful a abbreviated play of clip and without cost.”

The MP recalled that “Turkey has fixed much than 100 cardinal euros to Russia since the opening of the warfare successful Ukraine to bargain vigor resources,” portion its dependencies connected Russian state and lipid marque it intolerable to alteration suppliers instantly and without cost. At the aforesaid time, helium pointed to the legislature roadblock: “There is already a missive from 20 members of Congress to President Trump, including Republicans, asking for nary alteration successful the argumentation of US sanctions against Turkey. So things are not that simple.”