Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an attack on the Kemalist opposition for the islands that were lost a century ago, while accusing the Republican People’s Party that modern Turkey pays for the wrong choices – without naming him – of the founder of the Turkish state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Speaking at the inauguration of a solar power plant in Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the country’s chronic problems in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean are a consequence of the Treaty of Lausanne and called on the Republican People’s Party to give explanations of how the islands that now belong to Greece were lost.
“We have to pay for the mistakes of the past. 83 million people, we are still suffering today from the bad legacy left by the CHP’s one-party rule in foreign policy. The non-protection of the borders of our National Oath and the embarrassment regarding the issue of the Islands has cost a lot to our country.
It is easy to try to cover up the mistakes by resorting to the argument of the conditions that prevailed at that time. The CHP must explain to our nation how we lost the islands that are so close to our mainland.”
The Turkish president argued that his country is facing a new Treaty of Sèvres, which seeks to limit it and shrink its territory.
“Turkey’s struggle on various fronts from the eastern Mediterranean to Libya is not just a struggle for rights but a struggle for its future.
The greater the efforts we make to defend our homeland, the more important are the ones we make to defend our blue homeland.
Just as, a century ago, we, as a nation, tore and threw in the trash the Treaty of Sèvres, so today we are not going to succumb to the new Sèvres they want to impose us in the eastern Mediterranean,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
“Good news on Friday”
Meanwhile, everyone’s curiosity has been aroused by the Turkish president’s statement that he will announce “good news” on Friday, without giving any further details. “Tomorrow is Thursday and then it is Friday. God willing, on Friday we will be able to give our nation good news. We are now in the dream that precedes this good news. I believe that with this good news that we will announce to our nation on Friday, a new period will begin in Turkey.
