Al. Tsipras: He’s also asking for change for Rodopi

Al. Tsipras met with the interim prime minister to express his concern not about the Turkish embassy’s activity in Thrace, but rather about the EYP’s activity in the region, as the agency reports to the prime minister. A person who left the presidential palace “expressed his grave concern over the way Mr. Mitsotakis used the sensitive issue of the Muslim minority in Thrace in the pre-election conflict. A bigger institutional and national issue is arising.”

What does Al mean? When Tsipras claims that Kyriakos Mitsotakis used the Rhodope issue to his advantage? Who gave Mitsotakis this opportunity? When such blunders happen in the run-up to elections, it is expected that the opposition will take advantage of it.

Al’s former diplomatic adviser spoke about the essence of the case yesterday. Tsipras, Mr. Giorgos Ifantis, Honorary Ambassador and Revealed. Mr. What did Ayfandis write?

In the 2014 European elections, Roma activist Sabiha Suleiman was excluded from the party’s ballot in favor of a candidate from the embassy, ​​due to the intervention of the Turkish ambassador to Syriza. For this reason, Mr. Ayfandis resigned.

Suleiman was against the operation of an exclusively Turkish-speaking kindergarten and the construction of new mosques in his area. In exchange for about 40,000 votes from Thrace Muslims, a like-minded SYRIZA Muslim M.P. Taken by Hussain Sybek.

Thus, SYRIZA’s privileged relationship with the Turkish embassy has been longstanding. And it has a lot of footnotes.

The so-called libertarians of the far left, advocates of self-determination, play an important role in this approach. Arguably, they fail to realize that ethnic-based self-determination – and violation of international treaties – directly undermines a state’s national unity. Individual ethnic self-identity, when viewed as a whole, constitutes a national identity within another state. The problem is magnified when this national identity reinforces the aspirations of a neighboring country. He becomes her subordinate.

What some top Syriza executives don’t understand is what Turkish foreign policy has been realizing for decades. So the question is not whether to draw a Rhodope map pink or blue, but how to draw it.

In Ferhat’s case the SYRIZA leadership team was not at fault. We need to understand this. Passing a promise to hand over 8 Turkish officials to Erdogan, continuing the stance of the Euros crisis in 2020, peaked in parliament during the arms vote.

A stable policy in stark contrast to the permanent Greek positions that New Democracy and PASOK have supported over time. This is why Turks have good words about the SYRIZA policy.