Greece is a peaceful Western country, but without being pliant and complaisant. Through deterrence and decisiveness it sends the analogous signals. Through constant diplomatic pressure, it reminds one that Greece’s borders are the EU’s borders.
Let us not allow outbursts and irresponsibility to prevail in our public statements. Let us leave the oversight of our strategy to the government, as in the past we have paid dearly for the diplomacy of emotion.
Not only with Erdogan and the neo-Ottoman dogma that he follows, but also historically, Turkey in every domestic crisis has proven that that it shifts and shapes it into a dangerous, extroverted stratagem.
In the case of migrants in the Evros region being instrumentalised again, Greece is "well prepared and determined to once again defend the European borders,"
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