Turkish missiles can target Greece's capital, Athens

Istanbul/Athens: Turkish President Recep Erdogan threatened, ‘Now Turkey has started producing indigenously made missiles. These missiles seem to have created an atmosphere of fear in Greece. Greeks fear the word typhoon and worry that the missile might even hit Athens. This fear is true, as the Typhoon missile can also target Athens.’ Greece reacted strongly to the threat from the Turkish President. Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has warned that there is no room in NATO for those who show North Korean tendencies.

For the past few years, tensions between Turkey and Greece over rights to islands and oil fields in the Aegean Sea have been simmering. Turkey has sent vessels to explore and mine oil fields within Greek territory in the Aegean Sea. After that, destroyers were also sent to demonstrate their defence might. An aggressive demand was made by the Turkish regime that Greece should withdraw its army from the Greek islands close to Turkey and give up its rights.

Furthermore, Greece also increased its defence preparedness in response to this Turkish aggression. At the same time, it has started strengthening defence cooperation with countries in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. This has agitated Turkey more and it has started making open threats to Greece. In this matter, the mediation by the European Union and NATO has only been temporary and there has been no change in Turkey’s aggression. President Erdogan’s new threat is part of it.

‘If Greece tries to increase its military strength, cooperating with the United States and other countries without caring to maintain peace, Turkey will not be a mere bystander. Turkey will have to take some action.’ President Erdogan threatened Greece. Turkey has developed an indigenous ballistic missile named ‘Typhoon’ and successfully test-fired it in October. The range of this missile is 560 kilometres. It is the longest-range ballistic missile that Turkey currently has. Turkey also claimed that the range of this missile could be increased.

Meanwhile, Greece reacted strongly to this Turkish threat. Greece’s Foreign Minister compared Turkey to the North Korean regime, which has repeatedly threatened war. Greek Foreign Minister Dendias warned that those with such an attitude have no place in a group like NATO. The Foreign Minister of Greece also warned that a NATO member country like Greece would not tolerate the threat of a missile attack on another NATO country.

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