The leader of Turkey’s ultra-right MHP party Devlet Bahceli on Monday revisited one of his favorite topics: throwing Greeks into the sea.
This time he hit out at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for suggesting that Greece is not afraid of an incident in the Aegean.
“The sea is full of the grandfathers of those who speak with such empty words,” Bahceli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is quoted as saying.
He was responding to the Greek leader’s comment at the EU Summit last week where he said that he and the Greek people should not be scared of Turkish aggression.
“We have a deterrent capability and it is clear that whoever provokes [us] would be shooting themselves in the foot,” Tsipras had said.
Bahceli hit back accusing the Greek premier of “impudence”.
“Without blushing that person claimed that Turkey wants an incident in the Aegean…He actually said that Turkey is shooting itself in the foot or something like that.”
“Everyone knows, however, who fired bullets of national pride,” he said, adding that “the sea is full of the grandfathers of those who speak with such empty words”.
Last July Bahceli claimed that 15 islands are held by Greece “illegally and unfairly”.
“If there are some who want to be thrown into the sea and be hunted, we will find them, wherever they are hiding, and we will throw them with great pleasure ourselves,” the MHP leader said.