Andreas Loverdos stated that he does not consider it likely that Greek-Turkish crisis is likely, though he did not rule out a pre-election move by Erdo\u011fan. <\/p>\n
Andreas Loverdos<\/strong>, a member of New Democracy<\/strong> and a former minister, speaking to OPEN<\/strong>, stated that he does not consider it likely that Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/strong> would provoke a crisis with Greece<\/strong> for pre-election reasons, while making it clear, however, that such a scenario cannot be ruled out. <\/p>\n As he pointed out, \u201cI don\u2019t see it as likely, but I can\u2019t rule it out at all<\/strong>.\u201d He added that we are in the final stages of calm waters<\/strong>, noting that the current situation in Greek-Turkish relations<\/strong> is not the same as it was last year. <\/p>\n Andreas Loverdos<\/strong> also argued that Erdo\u011fan<\/strong> \u201cis afraid of Israel<\/strong>\u201d and, consequently, takes Greece\u2019s strategic relationship with <\/b>Israel and <\/b>Cyprus, a fact which, as he said, makes Greece a difficult opponent. <\/p>\n In conclusion, he emphasized that, despite the current situation, no one can rule out<\/strong> what options the Turkish president<\/b>, should he decide to lead his country into early elections in the near future. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Loverdos on the possibility that Erdogan might use a crisis with Greece for pre-election purposes: \u201cI don\u2019t see it as likely, but I can\u2019t rule it out entirely. We\u2019re in the final stages of calm waters; we\u2019re not where we were last year. He\u2019s afraid of Israel, and therefore,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/qypiSMDvvg<\/p>\n \u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n Andreas Loverdos stated that he does not consider a Greek-Turkish crisis likely, though he did not rule out a pre-election move by Erdogan.<\/p>\n Andreas …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} The \u201ccalm waters\u201d and the Israel factor<\/b> <\/h3>\n
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