{"id":7074,"date":"2026-05-23T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:27:00","slug":"turkish-and-russian-media-drip-honey-for-tsipras-and-karystianou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7074","title":{"rendered":"Turkish and Russian media &#8220;drip honey&#8221; for Tsipras and Karystianou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish and Russian media are particularly keen on Greek political life, with an emphasis on the return of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> and the new party of <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It is probably in Turkey that they hope <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> will fall and that someone more&#8230; more willing or easy against them. There is no other explanation for the fact that the Turkish media, especially the media friendly to <b>Erdogan<\/b>, are talking about upcoming political instability in Greece and major upheavals in the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently their dream is to have instability in the country with a weak government or to bring in people with no experience, like <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>. Butter on the bread of the cunning ones who are overseeing our country.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Hurriyet lately has done quite a lot of reporting on the political situation in our country, which is unusual. In them it claims that Greeks are outraged by the accuracy (while Turkey has an inflation rate of&#8230; 32% and Greece 3.5%) and by the constant scandal and many want the return of the former prime minister and former president of <b>Syriza<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Where &#8220;many&#8221; obviously means the <b>Erdogan<\/b> regime. So the newspaper ran an article on <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>&#8216;s return entitled &#8220;Greek former PM Tsipras sets date for new party return&#8221;, noting that the former PM is returning at a time when confidence in the <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> government has eroded.<\/p>\n<p>But the Turks, apart from <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, have made no secret of their preference for <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>. As Hurriyet reports, a mother of the Tempi tragedy, <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>, is also running a party, making it difficult for <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> and many opposition forces. <\/p>\n<p>Among other things in <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b>&#8216;s attrition, she mentions <b>Antonis Samaras<\/b> and the possibility of him becoming a party: &#8220;in addition to <b>Tsipras<\/b>&#8216;s party, former conservative Prime Minister <b>Antonis Samaras<\/b>, a longtime critic of <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> who was ousted from <b>New Democracy<\/b> in 2024, is also rumored to be planning a party. And a face of the 2023 train tragedy, the mother of one of the victims, <b>Maria Karustianou<\/b>, will also announce a new party on May 21,&#8221; the Turkish newspaper said, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Turks are hoping for political anomaly and hoping that some of the new opposition parties will topple <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> from power. Not surprising of course.<\/p>\n<h3>Russian media on Karystianou<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>But most Russian media also commented on the creation of a party by <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>, which was surprising as they rarely cover the political situation in the country. Among the media that wrote about the formation of the <b>Karstianou<\/b> party were Russia Today, Sputnik and Ria Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, what the Moscow media wrote was particularly flattering about <b>Maria Karstianou<\/b>: &#8220;The immaculate leader against professional politicians. A scientist stirs the waters of a corrupt country. Brussels wags its finger at human rights in Russia, but turns a deaf ear to the complaints of a pained mother. In Maria Karystianou, Greeks are united, from Orthodox Christians and patriots to the Left and those who are unhappy with the corrupt system of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, talking about a corrupt system of power in the Russian media goes too far, but it shows a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish and Russian media are particularly keen on the political life of Greece, with an emphasis on the return of Alexis Tsipras &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","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=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}