‘The monotonous repetition of a lie does not make it true’ – Economou replies to statement by Turkey’s Akar

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“The monotonous repetition of a lie does not make it true and the entire international community has realised this,” government spokesperson Yiannis Economou said on Tuesday in response to statements by Turkey’s defence minister, Hulusi Akar.

Speaking on SKAI radio, Economou described Akar’s statements as “extreme” and said they were “based on lies, the distortion of history, of international legality, of treaties and of the reality in the Aegean.”

Greece replied in “a very effective manner, keeping the door closed to provocations and the windows open to dialogue,” he added.

The spokesperson was responding to a statement by Akar on Monday in which he accused Greece of stoking tensions in the region with “provocative actions and provocative rhetoric” and claimed that Turkey was instead striving to ease them and “doing everything we can to prevent this”.

Source: ANA – MPA

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