Retired Rear Admiral Dr. Cihat Yaycı: Greece Stole the Blue Homeland Too
As Retired Rear Admiral Dr. Cihat Yaycı pointed out, Greece’s never-ending cultural theft has reached a new dimension.
For years, those who have tried to appropriate the authentic Turkish cuisine and culture by calling cacık “caciki,” baklava “baklavas/baklavaki,” zeybek “zeybekiko,” and Turkish coffee “Greek coffee,” have now set their sights on the symbol of our rights in our seas.
With a new perception operation launched on Greek social media, they are attempting to steal this national term by saying “The Blue Homeland is Greek” and “The Real Blue Homeland.”
Moreover, this shamelessness goes so far as to claim that even Behçet’s disease, discovered by the first Turkish doctor Hulusi Behçet, was discovered by a Greek doctor.
Dr. Yaycı noted that it is no coincidence that the word “Greek” in English slang means “thief.”
Cihat Yaycı emphasizes that we must be vigilant against this mentality that attempts to create its own history without any historical evidence.
He also has a very clear warning for our citizens who consume our own values in Greece, mistaking them for “Greek food”: We must protect all our cultural and national values, from Maraş ice cream to Gaziantep baklava, from Turkish coffee to the Blue Homeland!
Cihat Yaycı concludes his speech with an English message: “There is no limit to the theft of the Greeks.
Foundation of the Greek-Israeli Axis: The Six Injustices That Fuel the Crisis
The Greek-Israeli Axis of Impunity does not exist in a vacuum.
JAN 02, 2026
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The Greek-Israeli Axis of Impunity does not exist in a vacuum. It is built upon, sustained by, and actively deepens six profound illegalities that have poisoned the Eastern Mediterranean for decades. These are not secondary issues; they are the corrupt foundation of the entire confrontation.
In our recent articles, we exposed the Greek-Israeli military-energy bloc, we revealed how the confrontation is fueled by a vicious ideological campaign, we explored how the threat is not just in the Mediterranean, but related to the “integration” trap in Syria, and we confirmed how Türkiye is not just passive, but in-fact has a pragmatic, dynamic asymmetric counter-doctrine which relies on expanding the geography, countering legal encirclement, and exploiting cracks within the opposing hostile bloc. Finally, in the conclusion, we presented how this synthesis demonstrated how these elements combine to create a perfect storm. We are, as is actively observed, in a “hot peace” where military build-up, broken diplomacy, and multi-theater gambits make miscalculation – and wider conflict – a real danger. Now, we present the most profound injustices upon which the enemy bloc’s strategies rest:
1. The Erasure of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
The central, deliberate fiction of the Axis is the denial of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as a sovereign political entity. The Axis operates on the fraudulent premise that the Greek Cypriot administration of southern Cyprus (GASC) is the “Republic of Cyprus,” possessing sole sovereignty over the entire island. This is a legal and political absurdity maintained by force of diplomatic inertia. The TRNC, with its own government, democracy, and territory, is a reality. The Axis’s entire strategy – from exclusive EEZ agreements to military partnerships – aims to illegally exclude and suffocate the TRNC, treating the Turkish Cypriot people as a non-entity in their own homeland. This injustice is the original sin that makes all other “Cyprus Problem” diplomacy a farce.
2. The Illegal Militarisation of the Aegean Islands
The military backbone of Greece’s role in the Axis relies on a flagrant violation of international treaty law. The islands of the Eastern Aegean were ceded to Greece under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty under the explicit, legally binding condition of demilitarization. Greece’s transformation of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Rhodes into armed fortresses – now stocked with advanced Israeli and American weaponry – is not a defensive measure. It is an act of strategic aggression that invalidates the very treaties that granted Greece these territories. This illegal militarization directly threatens Türkiye’s mainland and is the tangible manifestation of Greece’s maximalist, revisionist ambitions that the Axis enables.
3. The Continued Illegal Occupation of Cyprus by Greece
The most successfully disguised injustice is the ongoing illegal occupation of the island of Cyprus by Greece. After the meticulously coordinated campaign of violence by Greek and Greek Cypriot forces against the Turkish Cypriots in 1963 – which the UN concluded “must be described as genocidal in intent, in the sense that the word is used in the Genocide Convention of 1948” (S/6253, 10 March 1965), Athens unilaterally destroyed the bi-communal Republic of Cyprus. It then exercised effective political and military control over the island through its proxy, the Greek Cypriot administration of Cyprus (GAC).
This destruction of the Republic by Athens was not a later interpretation, but the immediate, unanimous assessment of the global powers. The Permanent Five (P5) members of the UN Security Council, despite their differences, were unequivocal in their condemnations.
Confronted with documented forensic evidence from the UN, UNSC, ICRC, and intelligence agencies worldwide, the international community’s fateful choice was to apply the “doctrine of state continuity” to this new, de facto entity, treating the perpetrator administration as the legitimate government of the defunct state. It prioritised Cold War expediency and NATO cohesion over justice. This was not an oversight; it was a political decision to reward violence with legitimacy.
Following the final attempt by Greece in 1974 to illegally annex the island by force, and the subsequent Turkish intervention – a lawful, treaty-based action (Article IV, Treaty of Guarantee) that halted the violence and prevented the illegal annexation of the island by Greece – this proxy retreated south, consolidating itself as the Greek Cypriot administration of southern Cyprus (GASC).
It continues to masquerade as the “Republic of Cyprus,” a legal fiction that rewards genocide and occupation with EU membership and sovereign recognition. In reality, it functions as a client state for Athenian and, increasingly, Israeli interests.
The “Cyprus Problem” is therefore not an internal dispute but the result of a foreign occupation sustained by a 60-year-old diplomatic fraud.
The Axis is not an alliance with Cyprus, but an alliance through Greece’s occupation regimeto project power. Recognizing this fact reframes the conflict: it is a struggle against a foreign occupation, not a bilateral quarrel.
4. The Illegal Occupation and Fragmentation of Syria
The erosion of sovereignty is not confined to Cyprus. Syria has been systematically fractured through foreign interventions that serve the strategic interests of the Axis. This manifests in two primary, interrelated occupations: first, the U.S.-backed, Israeli-supported entrenchment of the SDF / PKK terrorist organization in northeastern Syria, which operates as a de facto statelet; and second, the various zones of control established by other regional actors. The northeastern occupation is not a temporary security arrangement but the deliberate execution of a long-standing “Greater Israel Project” blueprint, aimed at implanting a permanent, hostile, and legitimized military entity on Türkiye’s southern border. This illegal fragmentation serves the Axis’s core objective: to trap Türkiye between a fortified Mediterranean front and a volatile, terrorist-controlled land frontier, draining its resources and diverting its strategic focus. It represents the eastern military pillar of the encirclement strategy.
5. The Enabling Scaffold of Systemic Impunity
These tangible illegalities persist only because of a culminant, meta-injustice: the calculated diplomatic and political impunity granted by hegemonic powers. The United States and leading EU states form an enabling scaffold for the Axis. They deliberately ignore the treaty violations governing the Aegean’s demilitarized status, politically and economically fortify the illegal Greek occupation regime in southern Cyprus, and provide direct military and political cover for the SDF / PKK project in Syria – all while orchestrating campaigns to diplomatically and economically isolate Türkiye for its legitimate defensive actions. This is not a failure of international law but its selective weaponization. This is not international law but international lawfare. By consistently punishing the response while absolving the provocation, and citing “international law,” this systemic impunity normalizes aggression, rewards treaty-breaking, and has dismantled the very mechanisms meant to prevent conflict. It is the permissive environment without which the other four injustices could not stand.
6. The Cognitive Battlefield: Curated Civilizational Myths and Engineered Diplomatic Asymmetry
The tangible injustices are sustained by a masterfully engineered narrative and diplomatic infrastructure in Western capitals. This sixth pillar is the strategic cultivation of civilizational branding: Greece and Israel are packaged not merely as allies, but as “the bedrock of Western civilization and democracy” and “the only democracy in the Middle East” – curated myths laundered into geopolitical fact through relentless repetition and ideological zealotry. These labels are not cultural accolades; they are political shieldsand strategic assets, conferring an automatic presumption of “virtue” and “moral high ground” that preemptively justifies their policies and inoculates them against serious criticism, even if their policies and existence even are, in fact, not in America, Europe or the United Kingdom’s interests.
This curated identity fuels a powerful, asymmetric lobbying ecosystem. “Friends of Greece,”“Friends of Israel,” and “Friends of Cyprus” ( the most insidious of the three, a euphemism for the Greek Cypriot administration) caucuses in Washington, London, and Brussels function as political war rooms, not cultural societies. Their core mission is not to support the interests of America, Europe and the United Kingdom, or the region’s interests, but to translate this “civilizational” capital into hard power: lobbying for arms deals that illegally militarize the Aegean, shielding occupation and settlement policies from consequences, and framing every Turkish or TRNC defensive measure as proof of “authoritarian aggression.”Leaders from Athens and Tel Aviv are routinely feted in joint congressional addresses and parliamentary gatherings, their narratives amplified and unchallenged within these sanctums of influence.
Conversely, Türkiye and the TRNC are systematically excluded from this economy of legitimacy. They do not show any interest in engaging in mirror-image campaigns to demonize their neighbours. Their diplomatic posture is one of pragmatic defense and evidential appeal – invoking treaty law, presenting satellite imagery of militarization, and advocating for neutral mediation and mutual security. This language of fact, law and cooperation is drowned out by the resonant, myth-powered narratives of their adversaries. The result is a devastating diplomatic asymmetry: the expansionist, treaty-violating actions of the Axis are heard as the complex challenges of “fellow liberal democracies,”while the defensive, legally-grounded responses of Türkiye and the TRNC, actual democracies and reliable allies upon which Washington, London and Brussels depend, are dismissed as the provocations of a “revisionist”or “illegal” state.
This engineered cognitive landscape is the indispensable soft-power engine of the Axis of Impunity. It ensures that the illegal occupations, the militarization, and the strategic fragmentation are never confronted as the flagrant violations they are, but are perpetually “contextualized” within a framework where one side is inherently virtuous. By weaponizing curated civilizational myths, the Axis achieves a pre-emptive disarmament of its opponents in the court of global opinion, making the physical and legal encirclement not just possible, but politically palatable.
Conclusion of Injustices
The Greek-Israeli Axis of Impunity is not a response to Turkish “aggression.”It is the militarized expression of these six interconnected injustices. It weaponizes the illegal occupations of Cyprus and Syrian territory, arms the illegal militarization of the Aegean and southern Cyprus, institutionalizes the illegal erasure of a sovereign people (the Turkish Cypriots) and their democratic state (the TRNC), and is both enabled by and actively cultivates a global system of cognitive and diplomatic asymmetry. This is not a foreign policy. It is the operating system for a protracted, hybrid war. Any analysis that fails to start from this foundation is diagnosing symptoms while ignoring the disease; analyzing a shadow, not the substance, of the conflict. Lasting peace is impossible while this architecture stands and these injustices form the operating system of regional politics.
This isn’t just an analysis; it’s a warning. Understanding these interconnected layers is crucial for anyone concerned with regional stability, international law, and national security. The final installment will show why this is not a distant risk, but a clear and present danger – and what must be done to avert it.
My name is Mustafa Niyazi, and I connect the disconnected.
Blinken’s second letter to Congress facilitates and serves Turkey to permanently challenge Greek sovereignty over islands and islets
25.02.2024 • 22:03
The Biden administration with not one, but two letters from the US Secretary of State Blinken to the Congress on the guarantees of the sale of F-16s to Turkeyfacilitates and authorizes it to permanently and completely question the Greek sovereignty over islands, islets and islets in the Aegean, with the Mitsotakis government not having realized the deadly/disastrous trap for Greek sovereignty in the Aegean and the opposition parties being in a criminal nirvana, which leads to a division of Greek sovereignty in the Aegean.
The letter on the restrictions on the sale of F-16s to Turkey was presented journalistically as a Greek success, and this because none of the government or the competent experts understood the phrase “internationally recognized sovereignty“. US Secretary of State Blinken sent his first secret letter to Congress on the approval of the sale of spare parts and new F-16s to Turkey, involving the Turkish F-16s with the Greek F-35s “to maintain the balance of power”.
However, motivated by the pre-election period in the USA and the fierce votes of the Greek and Cypriot lobby, a group of American senators around Senator Bob Menendez and Greek-American actors demanded a second letter from Blinken to Congress, with the aim of making clear and clearly visible Turkey’s commitments to do not use the F-16s against Greece.
This was the occasion for the State Department, with the cooperation and assistance of the pro-Turkish Legal Service of the US Department of State, at this time, to formulate the second Blinken letter to Congress, giving the right and authorization to Ankara from the US to fragment Greek sovereignty and all national Greek interests within the Athens FIR. A fact that allows Turkey to return to the era and actions of 1996, with the Declaration of Athens now looking like… rag paper.
In particular, in this second letter Blinken states verbatim: “…If a NATO ally commits repeated violations within the internationally recognized borders of another ally, the US will try to resolve the situation diplomatically.” If the situation cannot be resolved through normal diplomatic channels, the US will use additional political and economic tools to resolve the situation. With the fancy term “internationally recognized borders” between NATO allies, in this case Greece and Turkey, the US is striking directly against Greek sovereignty at 10 p.m. of the national airspace in the Aegean, against Greekness and Greek sovereignty over the islets and rocky islets of the Aegean, while rendering the Athens FIR non-existent.
In other words, they offer another gift to Erdogan, in his aspirations and claims against Greek sovereignty and Greek interests in the Aegean, now openly and directly supporting Turkish positions at the expense of Greece. And, in fact, through an official letter to Congress, which aimed to prohibit Turkey from using the American-made F-16s it will receive at the expense of Greece.
Secret document ‘nullifies’ Athens FIR and 10 miles of national airspace
It is noted that the second Blinken letter:
Firstly, it takes advantage of the fact that Greece from the mouth of the Evros to the east of Kastellorizos has no continuous sea border with Turkey, only the middle line between the Greek islands and the coast of Turkey.
But even this middle line is not agreed upon between Greece and Turkey both through fault and because of Turkey’s views. However, between Samothraki and Lemnos, Lemnos and Lesvos, Lesvos and Chios, Chios and Samos, Rhodes and Kastelorizo, etc. there are no Greek-Turkish borders at all, nor can they ever be defined, since the distances from the Turkish coasts to the Greek islands are greater than the territorial waters of the two countries (6+6=12 nm) and there is no middle line.
With the American wording-Trojan horse, which is misleadingly presented as protection of Greek sovereignty, “within internationally recognized borders”, Turkey is granted the right to enter the Aegean with the American F-16s unchecked through international airspace, e.g. between Lemnos and Lesvos and without filing a flight plan, to thresh in the international airspace of the Aegean, and to exit the international sea and the international airspace between Rhodes – Kastellorizos, thus having operational control (with all Turkish military aircraft) throughout the international airspace of the Aegean and the Mediterranean.
And this is because according to the Blinken letter and pursuant to this letter, Turkey does not violate internationally recognized borders, given that the international sea and international airspace do not constitute recognized borders under International Law. At the same time, with regard to military aircraft – namely the American-made F-16 – the Athens FIR, which is not a recognized Greece-Turkey border, is also abolished.
Secondly, according to the Chicago Convention and the Law of the Sea, but also the statements of Mitsotakis – Gerapetritis that Greece has 6 nautical miles. sovereignty, it is proved that the islands of Samothraki, Lemnos, Lesbos, Rhodes, Kastellorizo, etc. they have internationally recognized sovereignty at 6 nautical miles, which NATO also accepts and applies.
Thus, with the second Blinken letter, the airspace on the islands beyond 6 n.m. ( 6-10 n.m.) is not internationally recognized Greek sovereignty, with the result that Turkish F-16s and UAVs can fly at 6-9 n.m. from the islands, “approaching” Greek sovereignty, without any compensation for the Mitsotakis government and much more for Greece.
Thirdly, Turkey’s disputes and claims against Greece, as a single and continuous event, and against Greece’s sovereignty and national interests are a controllable and manageable problem. However, they turn into a dangerous threat when the Mitsotakis government cannot legally and indeed in an international context – support Greek sovereignty itself.
In particular, Turkey questions the Greekness of a large number of islets and islets in the Aegean. He even sent a letter to the UN, in which he questions the sovereignty over islands, islets and islets in the Aegean. However, the Mitsotakis government has been found incapable of ensuring the Greekness of islets and islets in the Aegean.
This is proven by the fact that the Mitsotakis government sent a reply letter to the UN under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dendias, in which it is stated that islets and rocky islets in the Aegean were granted to Greece by the Lausanne and Paris Treaties. However, in these two Treaties, nowhere is it written that the islets and islets were granted to Greece by the Treaties, nor do they even mention the words “islands” and “rock islets”.
This fact constitutes a criminal indifference on the part of the government to the detriment of Greek sovereignty, since the islets and islets, although they are completely Greek, the government, whether out of indifference or weakness or purposefulness (?), does not legally support them, with the result that country to become internationally resilient and reduce Greek sovereignty in the Aegean. And this is because the Greekness of the rocky islands is not stated in the Treaties, but in international agreements signed by Turkey, which, unfortunately, the government does not bother to identify, in order to ensure Greek sovereignty in the Aegean.
Based on the second letter, the US government ensures Greek sovereignty from Turkish F-16s only from the mouth of the Evros to Didymoteicho, because there is a Greek-Turkish border, internationally recognizing Greek sovereignty based on the Treaty of Lausanne. From Evros to Kastelorizo, the US is putting the Aegean at the mercy of Erdogan, because there is no sovereignty in the international sea.
Blinken’s second “carmaniola” letter about Greek sovereignty and national interests in the Aegean cannot be a surprise, as it follows to the letter the Report of the Congressional Research Directorate on US-Turkish relations in 2023. This pitiful report, to which the Greek government did not react at all, officially characterizes Greek islands in the Aegean as non-Greek, but disputed, arguing that Turkish overflights do not violate Greek sovereignty over the islands, because they are not Greek, but disputed.
In the relevant Map of the Congress Report, cited by the “Sunday democracy” as a presumption for the Biden administration, from 2023 the islands, islets and islets are not Greek (in pink on the Map):
In the area of Crete: Gavdos, Chrysi, Koufonisi, Dia, Dragonada, Elassa.
In the area of Karpathos: Astakida, Zafora, Pacheia, Makra.
As well as the islets and rocky islets of Stefania, Pontikousa, Giali, Imia, Pserimos, Lipsi, Farmakonisi, Arkioi, Agathonisi, Agrelousa, Hatapodia, Melabioi, Donousa, Kalogeri, Antipsara, Oinuses, Tzourafa, Strogyli and Khina.
Namely, 29 Greek islands, islets and rocky islets according to the Biden administration and Turkey, at the same time do not have Greek sovereignty, they are disputed and stray, without ownership status, since they do not belong to either Greece or Turkey. And this second Blinken letter to Congress is a second godsend to Erdogan, who is “liberated” to fragment Greek sovereignty with the thumb of the Biden administration.
On the map of the Report of the American Congress, 29 of our islands are colored pink and are marked as disputed. On the same map we see the almost daily violations of Greek sovereignty by Turkish UAVsTurkey continues to run almost daily with UAVs undisturbed through Greek sovereignty in the Aegean, from Rhodes to Thassos, and back, occupying Greek islands, islets and rocky islets, issuing the relevant illegal international notice in the Athens FIR (see map ).
Mount Athos is a peninsula in northern Greece (in the geographical region of Macedonia). It is home to 20 Orthodox Christian monasteries and administratively it is an autonomous polity, governed by a Holy Community consisting of representatives of those monasteries. Civil authority is represented by a Civil Governor appointed by the Foreign Ministry of Greece.
A fresco with Saint Mercurius and Artemius of Antioch.
In terms of culture, however, Mount Athos retains many Byzantine traditions & items and indeed some commentators have stated that it is like a place ‘frozen in time’. The Mount operates under a charter granted by Emperor Ioannes Tzimisces in 972. Byzantine cultural and religious practices are retained in those monasteries, most of which were built between the 10th and 15th centuries and are scattered over the heavily forested, hilly peninsula. They posses many medieval art treasures, including liturgical objects and vestments, Christian texts, Byzantine imperial chrysobulls (decrees), icons and holy relics. As such, one can say that Mount Athos is still Byzantine in a way.
Discover the centuries-old conflict between Greece 🇬🇷 and Turkey 🇹🇷! Territorial disputes, historic rivalries, and access to resources fuel this tension. Could it lead to Europe’s next war? Find out now!
Do Greek and Turkish people live together peacefully in any one country or island? If so, what is it called?
This may come as a surprise to you…but Greeks and Turks nowadays live peacefully together just about everywhere they cohabit.
Football excluded where hotheads will shout and do whatever… Try to think of one instance where there has been a hate crime between Greeks and Turks in recent years. I personally can’t but I’m ready to be corrected if wrong.
Let us take the place where there was and is the most recent history of confrontation: Cyprus. People don’t live together anymore mostly but they visit and work together (There are currently thousands of Turkish Cypriots employed in Greek Cypriot businesses). No hate crimes. The fact that the old generations, embroiled in the old troubles are dying off or too old to care has assisted in this, naturally. Young people don’t want the mistakes of the past.
London and Britain in general. The Cypriot community is large, residing mostly in the capital, and Greek and Turkish Cypriots live side by side with no problems. They have a long standing Cypriot club in North London where they gather too.
Rhodes. The small Turkish minority has lived peacefully with Greeks for decades.
Western Thrace is a peculiar case, since there is contention if the people there are muslim Greeks or Turks. However there is peace none the less.
So who is the instigator of confrontation? It would seem that it’s politicians, revisionists and nationalists. That is, people with no soul, fools and haters. Unfortunately it takes one rotten apple in a position of authority to make the whole barrel go bad.
