Erdogan is desperate… | capital

Written by Kostas Stupas

Erdogan is desperate…

A day after meeting with Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the signing of an agreement with the Libyan Interim Government regarding hydrocarbons in the region stipulated in the “Turkish-Libyan agreement”. .

Jake Sullivan’s meeting dealt with political and economic relations between Turkey and the United States, the war in Ukraine, the situation in the Aegean, but mainly the issue of F-16 procurement and the procedures for Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO. ..

It is clear that the timing of the announcement of the agreement with the illegitimate Libyan government was not a coincidence.

The agreement, as we said, is related to the possibility of Turkey conducting investigations to search for and extract hydrocarbons.

The interim government in Libya is not entitled to sign international agreements until a government emerges from the constantly postponed elections. But he did so as a puppet of Ankara. The Libyan parliament was immediately divided in its position…

Turkey needed a deal now, even if it was disputed by everyone but itself. This seems like a desperate move.

Erdogan’s regime, which has already opened many fronts, does not hesitate to open other fronts. Many analysts believe that, as in the case of the veto over the accession of Sweden and Finland, as well as with Greece, it threatens the cohesion of NATO by facilitating the Putin regime.

But Erdogan and his regime look more like “sewage rats”, as the vice-chairman of the German Free Democratic Party called him, than “conquerors”…

And despite embracing the nationalist and Ottoman agenda, it appears in the polls that he will hardly win over the opposition.

However, if Erdogan and the people of the regime lose the elections, they will not simply go to the opposition, but will be persecuted by those who have suffered persecution.

Ensuring, for example, a new batch of F-16 fighters or an upgrade of the existing ones on an equal footing with the Greek Snakes will not upset the political landscape that is starting to take shape in Turkey.

It would not be inconceivable to the people of the regime to consider that a military success in the Aegean, southern Rhodes, or Crete could change the landscape and avoid defeat …

After all, the way they prepare public opinion of Turkey shows that they are oriented towards such a solution.

The Turkish army is more experienced in war than the Greek army as it has been in recent years on several fronts, from Syria and Libya to Nagorno-Karabakh…

Despite everything, he faces groups of miscreants with light weapons.

He will find himself in front of Greece in a smaller but organized modern military machine. Even if the Greek military machine surrenders, it is capable of delivering a major blow to the Turkish armed forces as well as the infrastructure of its neighbor…

The Greek side has never stopped declaring that in case of getting involved it will respond forcefully to the entire spectrum between the two countries.

The composition of the archipelago with hundreds of islands (“aircraft carriers”, defences, and “shelters”) presents an advantage similar to that in the mountains of Albania against superior, well-equipped Italian forces during World War II.

One need not be an expert to realize that in the Aegean, someone with a few island-carrying missile groups could rule out the presence of any hostile ship in the air and sea from the Dardanelles to southern Crete…

It is certain that if they get involved, the countries will suffer a major economic hit. Both will take years to recover.

However, it seems that the regime’s political slippage at home and abroad is pushing it to a desperate solution in order to avoid the consequences of the political collapse inside Turkey…

2) Some comments on your article about investing in data centers

Good evening Mr. Stupa

On the occasion of your article on Tuesday October 4th “Here is something that is changing for the better…” Regarding the significant investments of Microsoft, Amazon and Google in our country in data center infrastructures, I would like, as an IT engineer with more than two decades of experience in the market in both Greece and abroad, let me quote some comments that may be useful to you and to the readers of your column.

I’ll start with the obvious: these investments are very important for Greece, because they put it on the global map of cloud computing service providers. I would venture to stress that this too is of significant geopolitical significance, if we consider who we have in the East. Just the appearance of infrastructure as options has a special effect.

The “problematic” aspect of these investments is what you also mentioned, which is that they don’t need large numbers of employees with some experience. The fact is that it is (it will be managed) mostly by other countries where there is a large abundance of skilled workers at significantly lower costs, precisely because the nature of the “product” does not require a physical presence in the country, except for minimal procedures that cannot be done remotely.

But before we get to data centers today, there are many other things, mostly good ones, that people should know.

In the last four or five years, the IT market in Greece has known “pienes” and that’s a fact. From time to time there may be ad jokes on social media from non-competing companies anyway, but this is the exception now. The reality is that huge multinational IT and consulting firms, the local ecosystem as well as their respective clients, have unprecedented needs for IT professionals in general – developers, engineers, consultants, project managers – at all levels of expertise, but the available staff isn’t even enough. To laugh about the huge amount of “ongoing” IT projects, which are of interest not only to our country. Several colleagues work on projects abroad based in Greece and now we have completely escaped the closed character I remember 10-12 years ago, and that can only be a good thing.

The reason they don’t find employees is because almost all “old people” already have good jobs with good money and are hard to move around, but also “youngsters” with 2 to 5 years of experience often ask with salaries that are unrelated to the most important and also hard to lure . A typical case I met in person was a 30-year-old with 3-4 years experience in ERP systems who left a large consulting firm where he was earning €2000 gross salary to go to a large Greek group where they received a gross salary of €3 Thousands of euros, obviously they couldn’t lure him for less but also because they couldn’t find another salary for less.

Simply put, the “cache” in the IT market has risen significantly compared to a decade ago, which attests to the boom and growth in this field.

To conclude my area, large investments in data centers come to “snap” to what I describe above, and we all hope it will help create a strong brand name in the field of IT services, beside those in Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain: Greece has employees High quality, but not in sufficient quantity, and that’s what we want to change as a result of big investments: to produce more people with the right knowledge and skills to fill these jobs. That’s what we want, not just a few server hosting facilities, the conditions (geopolitical, economic, etc.) may still be at the right level to make that a reality.

Thanks for your time. You are free to republish all or part of it if you wish, and you can quote my data.

welcome,

Sotiris Allegianis

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