Economou: Greece cannot be terrorised or intimidated by Erdogan’s ‘groundless claims’

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The statements made by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,at the United Nations were “an unprecedented attempt to spread fake news, a complete distortion of reality and crude propaganda from the UN General Assembly with completely groundless claims,” government spokesperson Yiannis Economou said on Wednesday, speaking to SKAI television.

“What is actually happening is that Turkey is systematically violating the international treaties it has signed, instrumentalising the refugees and migrants, and providing support for human traffickers, those who put people in boats, placing their lives in peril, in contrast to the Greek state, which saves human lives and which guards, as it is obliged to do, the borders of Greece and Europe,” he added.

The Greek prime minister, in his own speech to the UN, will send a message in every direction that Greece cannot be terrorised, cannot be intimidated and is obviously not besmirched by the nonsensical, fictional claims made at the UN, Economou added, noting that Greece’s reflexes are primed to respond at all times: “This is happening in Evros, this is also happening in the Aegean.”
According to the spokesperson, Erdogan’s speech but also a recent incident with an NGO, should serve as a warning to the main opposition about the need to impose limits to criticism, to avoid playing into the hands of forces who oppose the interests of Greece using fake assertions.
He also repeated that Greece had “closed its doors to provocations but opened its windows to dialogue,” while noting that Tuesday’s “crescendo of vulgarity, exaggeration and lies was something that cannot, obviously, go unnoticed.”

Commenting on Wednesday’s public transport strike, Economou said that trade union leaderships should be more sensitive to the needs of society and that, while the right to strike was sacred, there had to be a minimum level of service so that people could get to work and meet certain basic needs.

“This is not being implemented and justice needs to look into how the law will be implemented and what will happen exactly,” he said.

Source: ANA – MPA

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