Bahceli characterizes the arming of the islands as a provocation, Greece does not renounce its natural and legal right to defense, let alone at a time when it is threatened with war, the Foreign Ministry responds

Ankara continues its nationalist delirium, with junior government partner Devlet Bakhceli talking about the "century of Turkey" and the attempt of some to impose the terms of the Treaty of Sevres on the country.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Devlet Bahceli in a delirious speech before a partisan crowd said the Greeks should not forget that their grandfathers ended up at the bottom of the Aegean Sea.