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Clamorous: gaffe reveals Turkish military plans for the occupation of the Aegean Sea

The devil makes the pots and not the lids, and a secret plan to invade two neighboring countries can be revealed by a forgotten document in the middle of another folder. This happened to Ankara's bellicose plans towards its neighbors. The Turkish military has listed 131 islands, islets and rock formations in the Aegean whose status has been disputed with neighboring Greece and has prepared plans to conquer them during a conflict, according to a confidential document obtained by Nordic Monitor.

The secret document, a PowerPoint presentation with 16 slides, included a map with the controversial locations marked. The presentation appears to have been prepared by the military academies on an unspecified but relatively close date. It was part of a study that focused on coordination between branches of the Turkish military at a time of crisis between the two NATO allies and the odds against each of a series of disputes in the Aegean and airspace. The presentation indicated the plans of the Turkish armed forces to occupy the disputed territories with Greece and occupy their airspace.

The secret document was found buried in the annexes of a file in Izmir. Attorney Okan Bato appears to have incorporated the secret plan into the evidence file when he should have just taken a short note and secured it in court. Such documents can only be examined in a closed court presided over by a judge. The same document was also shared with another prosecutor, Cihat İpekçi, in Ankara in another case. Even that prosecutor overlooked the delicacy of the document.

The disputed islands, islets and rock formations to be occupied were listed as follows:

  • three locations on Zurefa (Ladoxer in Greek)
  • 13 on Koyun Adaları (Oinousses),
  • 21 on Hurşit (Fimena),
  • 18 on Nergiscik (Arki),
  • 15 Keçi (Pserimos),
  • 12 in Gelemez (Kalolimnos),
  • 2 in Bulamaç (Farmakonisi),
  • 10 in Sakarcılar (Yali),
  • 11 in Koçbaba (Levita),
  • 2 in Karaada (Strongili) e
  • 24 locations around the island of Crete.

The study was based on lessons learned from the Kardak (Imia) islet crisis, which brought Turkey and Greece to the brink of war in 1996. It pointed out that the Kardak crisis made it clear that more small would have been key in the operations of the future employment plan. Both the Special Forces Command, directly controlled by the General Staff, and the elite unit of the Turkish Navy Special Forces, Ankara's Underwater Raiders (Su Altı Taarruz, or SAT), would be mobilized separately or jointly from the sea. by speedboats and from the air via utility helicopters to take control of the targeted islands and islets. The goal seems to be to completely block the operation and mobility of the Greek armed forces by taking possession of numerous small strongholds that would put the Aegean under Turkish control.

There are also plans for the deployment of the navy, indicating the naval units and their location. Tension between Turkey and Greece has increased in recent years with more aggressive attitudes from the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his nationalist / neo-nationalist allies, often driven by an internal agenda to get more votes or divert public attention problems from the economy. The warlike speech of the Erdoğan government and the mobilization of military resources in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean have fueled concerns about a possible military conflict that could be triggered accidentally or intentionally. This plan, escaped (or let slip) only rekindles souls. However, the Athens navy, air force and army now have material to study.


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/clamoroso-gaffe-rivela-i-piani-militari-turchi-per-loccupazione-del-mar-egeo/ on Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:11:54 +0000.