The Turkish "Game of Thrones" has many episodes with the legendary decision to undermine, and ultimately dismember, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the same time, the hysteria over the islands and Israeli missile systems continues in the neighbor. SKAI's correspondent in Constantinople, Manolis Kostidis, has the latest.
"Fidan will be replaced with Kalin"
There is information about Fidan... We are talking about parapolitical, but with what is happening and what we are experiencing, we see that these are no longer just parapolitical. Erdogan, in Fidan's place, will appoint Ibrahim Kalin, the current commander of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT), as Foreign Minister. This will reduce the negative impact of removing Fidan from his duties, as Kalin is the commander of MIT," said Cumhuriyet's political analyst Mustafa Balbay.
"There is talk that President Erdogan is looking for a replacement formula," the analyst added, when asked about it on a show.
Political earthquake in Turkey
Meanwhile, the political earthquake in Turkey continues with a circle of big-name journalists and presenters allegedly involved in a drug scandal.
"There is a big political name in the cocaine scandal with the presenters, the directors of major networks are involved, they went with the presenters/escorts to close cases," Turkish media reported in the meantime. The Turkish judiciary has intervened, with the opposition claiming that "the journalists with the cocaine were traveling on the presidential plane."
"Greece is militarizing the islands with the help of Israel"
Regarding the defensive reinforcement of the Greek islands with Israeli weapons, the Turkish media continues to raise the tone, publishing maps and lists putting the islands in the crosshairs. The fact of the deployment of Israeli missiles on the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean is very disturbing to Ankara, reports Manolis Kostidis.
Haberturk presenter Dilek Gul commented that "along with its land borders, Greece is placing missile systems on the Aegean islands. This is why there is Turkey's continuous reaction to Greece, as the islands where Israeli weapons are normally placed, according to international treaties, are under a demilitarization regime. And we at Haberturk wanted to see in detail which islands are being militarized. We prepared this map here. Thassos, Samothrace, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, Lesvos, which we know well, Chios and Psara. These islands, according to the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, are under the sovereignty of Greece under the condition of demilitarization."
"The islands of the Eastern Aegean, which we also know as the Dodecanese, were ceded to Greece by the Treaty of Paris in 1947 on the condition of demilitarization. These are normally 14 islands. In total, Greece is said to have militarized at least 16 of the islands since the 60s. Turkey is following the issue closely... However, because Israel is also beginning to get involved in the issue, this issue is starting to go to another level," Gul added.
Source: skai.gr
