Turkey's plan to invade Greece unveiled
New secret documents are emerging to give insights into Turkey's plans to invade Greece and Armenia
The documents, reported by
Nordic Monitor, say Turkey's plan to invade Greece existed since at least June
13, 2014 under the codename "TSK Çakabey Harekât Planlama Direktifi,"
in honor of Chaka Bey, a Seljuk Turk who invaded and took control of Lesvos,
Samos, Chios and Rhodes, before the Byzantine Empire quickly retook the islands
with General Constantine Dalassenos completely destroying the Seljuk navy.
Despite Chaka Bey’s utter
defeat at sea, Turkey honors him and considers him the founding father of the
Turkish navy.
The documents unveiled by
Nordic Monitor reveal that the invasion plan against Greece existed since 2014,
but the one for Armenia, codenamed TSK Altay Harekât Planlama Direktifi,
existed since at least August 15, 2000.
These secret and classified
documents were accidentally revealed for public viewing when an Ankara-based
investigating prosecutor, Serdar Coşkun, that Nordic Monitor says is a loyalist
of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 'forgot' to remove the documents
before submitting them to the court when they were collected from the General
Staff headquarters during an investigation into a failed coup against Erdoğan in
2016.
The documents including the
invasion plan for Greece were found to have been exchanged among top military
commanders as they use a secure internal email communications system, but the
document unveiled by Nordic Monitor does not have any details on the specifics
of the plan other than the name and its updated date.
It is likely that the specifics
of the invasion plans were marked as "top secret" and therefore could
not be shared through the intranet system run on the Turkish military's email
exchange servers.
Ankara have been increasing its
rhetoric in the past few years that many Greek islands, including Crete, Rhodes
and Lesvos, belonged to Turkey.
