In the run-up to today's Southeastern Europe Cooperation Process Summit in Thessaloniki on Friday in the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ratcheted inflammatory rhetoric to an unprecedented degree.

The Turkish media continue the provocative propaganda about the Greek islands, which they claim are Turkish.

Time is running out for the NATO Summit - expected at the end of the month (June 28-30) - where Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be called upon to take a clear position on the accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Alliance.