The warning from the Egyptian President should put the EU on alert to not tolerate jihadist expansion by Turkey, which is aiming to revive the Ottoman Empire. Back in 2016, Foreign Policy Magazine warned that “Turkey’s new Maps” were “reclaiming the Ottoman Empire” and that Erdogan’s “aggressive nationalism” was “spilling over Turkey’s borders, grabbing land in Greece and Iraq.” But the Turkish threat has been ignored for years. The EU has been aware for quite some time of the deep threat that Turkey poses not just to the region, but to global security. Nevertheless, it has continually bowed to Turkey, which has already opened the gates for illegal Muslim migrants to enter Europe. Turkey also consistently threatens to release more Muslim migrants to invade Greece and the EU.
Now Erdogan is using Syrian mujahideen and has virtually declared war on Greece. In July, Turkey accused Greece of showing “enmity towards Islam” because of its opposition to the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque; in September, Turkish spy planes violated Greece airspace 45 times.
“Egyptian President’s Warning: Erdoğan uses Islam and a wave of terrorists could go to Greece,” by Paul Antonopoulos, Greek City Times, October 24, 2020:
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi warned his Greek and Cypriot counterparts that a wave of Turkish-backed jihadists will be a problem for Greece “in the future,” according to Ta Nea.
The information reported by Ta Nea was in the context of the Egyptian president meeting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades during a tripartite meeting in Nicosia on Wednesday.
The Egyptian president’s concern is not only about Ankara’s involvement in all regional conflicts, but especially about the way Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “now engages and openly uses the Islamic factor.”
In this context, the Egyptian president warned “of a wave of terrorists in Greece in the future”.
Ta Nea referred to a confidential briefing that took place during the tripartite meeting where it was agreed “Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Anastasiadis keep it high on the agenda, not only tripartite contacts but also of their own moves towards third countries.”
Today’s Ta Nea article comes as yesterday Greek City Times reported yesterday how Abraham Kasparian, a Syrian-born Armenian journalist, revealed through a leaked conversations between Idlib-based terrorists, that Turkey is now recruiting Syrian mercenaries to be sent to the Greek border.
Kasparian says that as Turkey is hosting thousands of Syrian militants, Ankara is planning another location to “burn” them as Azerbaijan will not be enough to get rid of them all….