“Greece, which is hostile to President Erdoğan and Turkey, has been a frequent destination for İmamoğlu since the day he took office,” commented the publication, noting that the Greek media praise the mayor of Istanbul who was in Greece and “denounced Turkish justice”.

The pro-government media in Turkey are attacking İmamoğlu, who is considered a possible main opponent of President Erdoğan in the May elections.

The presence of the mayor of Istanbul in Athens, for the work of the Network of Balkan Cities, as well as the contacts he had with his Athens counterpart Kostas Bakoyannis, were targeted by newspapers and television networks controlled by the Turkish government, who accused him of “endorsement”.

Takvim blasted İmamoğlu for his 3rd official visit to Greece, which “persistently antagonises and provokes Turkey”, as the publication states.

The report also emphasises that with his statements to the Greek press, the mayor of Istanbul “denounced the independent Turkish judiciary, with false and slanderous statements,” referring to his recent conviction that caused strong reactions from the opposition bloc in the country.

From the Greek capital, the mayors of Athens and Istanbul sent messages of democracy, cooperation and unity, with İmamoğlu declaring that looking at the Balkans “he does not see sultans and kingdoms but their democratic tomorrow”.

This is considered slander against Erdoğan and his neo-Ottoman dreams.

Source: Greek City Times

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“The Greeks were buying goat money from the EU and transporting their animals to Aegean islands. Athens promotes the occupation of these islets under the pretext of “dealing with desertification” and “environmental protection”, the publication notes.

As Aydınlık reports, the Greek government in collaboration with the University of Toronto “have started the implementation of a plan to create research bases for monitoring natural life on islands and islets,” which according to Turkish claims, but rejected globally, Greece does not have sovereignty over them.

“The government of Athens, which in the past had attempted to raise flags called ‘bird observatories’ on islands that do not belong to it, such as Zourafa, Agathonissi and Farmakonissi, and in particular on the Imia islets, in the framework of the NATURA 2000 environmental protection program, which extends throughout the European Union, is now taking measures to expand its possession,” writes defiantly the newspaper, citing details of the new program.

“Greece, which is trying to create a de facto situation on the islands and islets with the settlement and settlement policy, also wants these geographical formations to have full influence on the maritime areas. In other words, the Greek government seeks for the islets to have broad areas of maritime jurisdiction in addition to the islands,” the publication notes.

Source: Greek City Times

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