The Turks were waiting in the corner for our country, and immediately took advantage of Mr Sirigou' statements, talking about "discussing Lausanne".
MP and Professor Angelos Sirigou spoke on a SKAI programme the day before yesterday more as a foreign policy analyst, causing a wave of reactions and anger.
The statements of a Member of Parliament of a ruling party in our country, with a Turkey that threatens us and considers half of the Aegean to be its own should always contain within them the national interest and very little personal views.
The Turks have 'tweaked' Mr Syrios' analysis and are already talking about 'discussions on the Treaty of Lausanne', which has been Erdogan's dhaka for 30 years, in order to seize Greek territory and half of the Aegean.
"Angelos Syrigos, a member of the Greek New Democracy Party, has opened the Lausanne Treaty for discussion," a Turkish social networking site reported.
For years Ankara has been blackmailing the US for sharing the Aegean Sea by demanding a border change
There are very big "storms" coming in the Aegean and Cyprus in the coming period, although we are now in a calm and peaceful period , due to the supposed Greek-Turkish rapprochement with a starting point of December 7, 2023.
It is well known that the Turks are "blackmailing" the West, especially the US, that if they do not accept its demands for sharing the Aegean, then Turkey will join the Moscow-Tehran-Pekin axis.
Since 2017, and article by Russian journalist and analyst Dmitry Nersesov with close ties to the Kremlin , and article by Russian journalist and analyst Dmitry Nersesov , revealed Erdogan's "dirty" game since then something we see now with Sweden's NATO membership.
"In fact, it concerns all relations between Turkey and the West concerning NATO and the EU, which are now under "negotiation". Erdogan has indeed issued an ultimatum to Washington and Brussels.
"One you want Turkey to remain a strategic ally and member of NATO, in which you will deploy your armed forces on its territory and generally be able to defend your interests in the Middle East and the Black Sea in the face of Russia and Iran.
If you want Ankara to continue to restrict the flow of refugees and cooperate in the fight against extremism and terrorism, then you will have to make some "concessions" ( Aegean-Cypriot EEZ-Western Thrace and Southern Bulgaria ).
Erdogan wants NATO and the West to help Turkey strengthen its positions in the Balkans and the Middle East, and in the Islamic world as a whole, to confirm Turkey's special role, and of course to open clear prospects for strategic economic and investment cooperation with the clubs of the major Western powers.
If the West (US-EU) refuses this Turkish blackmail demand, then the Western countries will expect major problems. The Turks have strongly shown that they can work effectively with both Russia and Iran," he had said.
In 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, when he visited Greece, had called for a revision of the Lausanne Treaty signed in 1923... and he did not do it by chance.
Do some people think the Sultan has changed since then?
There is nothing new about the Turkish President's main pursuit.
Turkey has long sought to join the ranks of the "European elite" ( Britain, France, Austria and Germany) .
But the Turks' cherished dream has never materialized. Turkey has not gained full membership of the various powerful clubs , even after the country joined NATO , and will never be admitted to the European Union .
Therefore, Erdogan's ultimatum to the West comes as a continuation of Turkey's eternal political blackmail campaign: "either you put us in your club or we will go to your rivals".
The Treaty of Lausanne is an international treaty that consolidated the results of the First World War for Turkey in 1923, which went from being an empire to the present state.
As a result of the treaty, the former Ottoman Empire lost Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Tripoli and Cyrenaica (two main parts of present-day Libya) , Mesopotamia (Iraq), Palestine (present-day Israel and Palestine), Jordan , Lebanon, Syria, and the Aegean islands.
