It is time to speak some truths. There must be a perspective answering to the populists and toxic people who characterise Mitsotakis as a “traitor” because of his stance on Turkey’s actions since he was elected president of the New Democracy Party, even before he became prime minister. Mitsotakis support for Turkey is not “betrayal” but gratitude
The underworld of the internet and the opposition is praising our governor for a series of his actions, such as accepting the Libyan government, tolerating the Turkish-Libyan memorandum, rewarding the Turkish diplomat Sinirlioglu who submitted the two letters to the UN, one for the blue homeland and the other for questioning the Greekness of the Aegean islands, nominating him for the highest position in the OSCE, for the cancellation of the East Med, for the Islamization of Hagia Sophia, Panagia Soumela and some other old churches, for Turkaegean, for the deconstruction of Menendez, for the approval to end the American arms embargo on Turkey and for our neighbours to acquire modern F-16s, the practical support for Ankara’s just struggle against the Kurds, the disarmament of the Aegean islands, the clear stance against the extension of the Aegean Sea zone to 12 nautical miles, the fist in Kassos against the EEZ between Greece and Egypt, which Dendias had signed without asking anyone, the investigations of Orutz Reyes, the support for Turkish fishermen who now fish up to the sunbeds of Chalkidiki, Erdogan’s apotheosis for his stance on the migration issue, the ban on intercepting Turkish manned and unmanned aircraft entering the Greek FIR, his soft stance towards the Turkish incursion into Albania and Skopje, the shooting of Turkish military guards at the bodies of Greek border guards and much more.
So it is for these details that the opposition dares to tarnish the name of our Prime Minister!
The truth is quite different. No, our Kyriakos is not a traitor. Our Kyriakos is commendable, he has a memory, and, above all, he is not ungrateful.
So the love the Prime Minister shows for Turkey is not the product of treachery but of profound gratitude.
When the junta was persecuting the late Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Marika, and Kyriakos as an infant, it was Turkey that gave asylum to and fled the Mitsotakis family! While others like Karamanlis and Papandreou were fleeing to Paris and New York, the Mitsotakis family escaped to Turkey with the help of the then-Turkish Foreign Minister!
How can Kyriakos not express his gratitude to the country that saved his family and himself?
But there is another important element: It is Turkey that made his father, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, prime minister. Erdogan himself revealed this during his recent speech about Sadiq Ahmed, making it clear that he was a man of Turkey and fought for Turkey. So it was Sadik Ahmed’s vote that made Konstantinos Mitsotakis Prime Minister and naturally paved the way for the Mitsotakis dynasty, with Kyriakos as its crowning glory.
So the Prime Minister is not ‘betraying’, he is simply expressing his gratitude to his neighboring country for all its lifesaving interventions.
As for the €200 million that he gave from the Greek recovery fund to a company owned by the Turkish oligarch Koch and that too was a noble act: Do you know how many years the Koch family has known and worked with the Mitsotakis family? In fact, it was Koch himself who visited our Kyriakos in his office in Parliament shortly before he became Prime Minister. He brought him, as the source is in a position to know, baklava. So shouldn’t he also get a little gift of 200 million? What are we Greeks? Nothing inhospitable?
