Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon
Neither the West nor the East has learned anything from the lessons of the past. Even today, when Erdoğan and his Islamo-fascist regime have set their course toward the revival of the former Ottoman Empire, their principal adversary remains Hellenism (both Greek and Cypriot), which blocks their path westward into the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Turks have failed to realize that only sincere, honest, and selfless cooperation with the Greeks could save them from the impending and inevitable collapse that awaits them.
The much-publicized geostrategic value of Turkey to the United States and NATO has proven to be a myth. When the time came for Turkey to take a clear position, it lacked a compass for orientation and turned elsewhere. This has happened before, yet the West has failed to learn its lesson.
Following the conclusion of a U.S.–Persia agreement, Turkey will assume the role of an instigator of unrest and instability throughout the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, thereby increasing the threat to Israel.
Certain European countries are acting against their partnership obligations and against the vital interests of Greece and Cyprus, undermining European unity in pursuit of economic benefits derived from Turkey. They should remember, however, that Turkey itself—and does not conceal it—regards the Aegean and the Balkans as the borders of its “Blue Homeland,” while the “borders of its heart” extend as far as Vienna and beyond, as well as throughout the Middle East, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere.
Short-sighted and forgetful Europeans view everything through the lens of immediate financial gain, even at the cost of their future subjugation, whether by Turkey or by an “Islamic State” formed through the mass influx of foreign migrants entering by the thousands through Europe’s eastern and southern borders.
Modern Turkey feels isolated and insecure within Asia Minor. Despite the Turkification of its populations, the region has not become Turkish in spirit, since it was historically inhabited by Greek populations or peoples possessing a Greek consciousness. In Eastern Turkey, despite the armed suppression of the Kurds, Ankara feels particularly insecure in the face of a population of 20–25 million people seeking autonomy. Similar pressure is felt from Armenians, Pontic Greeks in the north, and Syrians in the south. The genocides committed against the peoples of Asia Minor—Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Cypriots, and others—will continue to condemn Turkey in the judgment of history.
Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus half a century ago did not create justice, and Cyprus continues to hold Turkey hostage and condemned in international forums. That isolation would be felt even more strongly if Greece were to fully implement international law by extending its territorial waters to twelve nautical miles and by condemning more forcefully Turkey’s revisionist policies instead of pursuing a policy of “calm waters.”
The timidity of successive Greek governments has, over time, nourished the “Turkish monster,” which now threatens to place the Greek islands under Turkish operational control. Greece once appeared as a two-headed eagle, but after the Asia Minor Catastrophe it abandoned the “Great Idea” that had symbolized its presence in the East.
The ultimate fate of all empires is decline and collapse, and this fate was artificially postponed by Turkey after the First World War. Yet Turkey never truly recovered and remains, even today, the “sick man,” this time of Ankara and not merely of the Bosporus. In the end, it will not avoid its destined collapse.
The dictator Erdoğan keeps his political opponents and most mayors imprisoned, depriving the peoples of Asia Minor of their fundamental human rights. The “Turkish Republic” is, in essence, an absolute dictatorship.
Nevertheless, Western powers turn a blind eye solely in order to protect certain economic interests. They allow Turkey to dream even of conquering Jerusalem, while no European country appears concerned about the Islamo-fascist propaganda directed at Turkish youth.
The Turks have never constituted a state possessing a mature political identity, spiritual substance, and genuine self-sufficiency. Historically, they have been backward and oriented toward military power, much like their barbarian ancestors. They were raiders and conquerors and, if they still survive today, they owe much to the Greeks who guided them, and later to the Jews after the destruction of Hellenism. Yet they ultimately became enemies of all. They were raiders then and still dream of territorial conquests and the seizure of foreign property, as in Northern Cyprus.
As a people, they have contributed nothing to civilization or humanity. All artistic creations are Greek, and whatever emerges from archaeological excavations belongs to the Greek cultural heritage.
Turkey has no place within the European family, despite the efforts of certain forgetful leaders to bring it into the European Union through NATO’s back door. No one in Turkey or elsewhere in the world will mourn the dissolution of the so-called “Turkish Republic.” On the contrary, many will feel relief as freedom succeeds the condition of servitude that they endure today.
17 June 2026
Amphiktyon – Major General (Ret.) Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author – Member of the Society of Greek Writers
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