According to Turkish media reports, Greece wants to bring military amphibious vehicles to islands in the Aegean Sea “which should actually be demilitarised”. With this move, Greece violates contracts already concluded, the Turkish television channel “Haber Global TV” recently reported.
The broadcaster cited reports that the US Congress had approved delivery of the vehicles to Athens. “The government in Athens seems determined to deploy the tanks in the Aegean Sea, despite other agreements,” it said. Athens has not yet responded to the allegations.
The government of conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is already in campaign mode. Polls ahead of parliamentary elections on April 9 saw Mitsotakis’s conservative governing party, Nea Dimokratia (ND), still ahead, but after the devastating train crash that killed 57 people, its lead fell to 2.5 percentage points.
According to current polls, the ND can count on about 28.5 percent of the vote, while the left-wing alliance SYRIZA currently has 25 percent. 41 percent of those surveyed blamed the current Mitsotakis government for the train crash, but 43 percent also blamed all previous cabinets – including that of SYRIZA (2015 to 2019). (sda/apa)
Soource :Watson
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