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15 Temmuz The Great Offensive is a historic milestone30.08.2022Yazdr Yazlar Bylt Yazlar KltThe Great Offensive is a historic milestoneSpeaking at the Victory Day concert President Erdoan said The Great Offensive is a truly historic and significant milestone when we triumphed over our bad fortune and built a new future for us. We fought the National Struggle not only against our enemies who violated our homeland with their filthy feet but also against the great powers who pulled their strings.President Recep Tayyip Erdoan delivered a speech at the Victory Day concert at the Presidential Complex.Underscoring that the August 30 Victory was an accomplishment achieved as a result of the first great offensive of the Turkish military who had been on the defensive for a long time since the late Ottoman era President Erdoan said We know that the offensives we conducted before in Sarkam and the Canal Operation did not yield the results we wanted. All our other battles had defensive objectives. The Great Offensive is a truly historic and significant milestone when we triumphed over our bad fortune and built a new future for us.We fought the National Struggle not only against our enemies who violated our homeland with their filthy feet but also against the great powers who pulled their strings. Those who realized that holding on to the Anatolian lands would cost them dearly resorted to proxy wars as they always do President Erdoan said.Unfortunately we see that the Greek politicians who dragged their own people and country to disaster a century ago are still insisting on the same mistake today President Erdoan said. As we always say Greece is not our equal or interlocutor in any political economic or military way. We know the true intention of those who try to waste our countrys time and energy by using Greece today as was the case a century ago. The recent developments have demonstrated this fact to everyone in an undeniable clarity. As you know the radar of a Greek S-300 missile system of Russian origin based on the island of Crete locked on to our F-16 jets which were conducting a NATO mission in international air space over the Aegean. Radar-locking a countrys aircraft is a hostile act. If this aircraft is conducting a NATO mission then it means this hostility directly targets NATO with all its members. By escalating its hostile attitude that started with violating our airspace and harassing our planes Greece challenged not us but essentially NATO and the allies if it as that capability or power President Erdoan noted.WE WERE NOT GOING TO USE THE F-35s AND THE S-400s IN THE SAME SYSTEMStating that the US which is the largest force within NATO supposedly considered it a threat to its own aircrafts that Trkiye purchased the S-400 systems completely for its own defensive needs as had been repeatedly expressed President Erdoan said Our said step was encountered with acts including the nondelivery of the F-35 jets whose down payment we already made being subjected to embargoes over defense industry products and even more. We are now curious to see how the US will respond to Greece activating the S-300 systems against a NATO air force. We are now curious to see how the US will respond to Greece activating the S-300 systems against a NATO air force. On top of that The US offered these F-35s which they did not give to us to Greece and paved the way of putting Russian air defense systems and these jets which they supposedly treasure in the same basket. As was promised to the supplier country we would never use the F-35s and the S-400s in the same system. However you can rest assured that Greece which does not know any legal moral or humanitarian boundaries will be so reckless.Recalling that the US waived any sanctions against Indias procurement of the S-400s President Erdoan said So the issue here is not using Russian air defense systems and American military products together but actually and specifically Trkiye. They are not giving us the F-35s. They are reacting to the alternative defense systems we purchased. They are imposing embargoes over truly ridiculous matters. Frankly we do not care about any of them. We have the capability capacity and determination to produce sooner or later every product they deny us. We are Trkiye. We have accomplished the capability to develop every technology build every project and offer every service we need in line with our own vision and goals. Providing the aircrafts we demand or supporting us in any matter would only serve as a gesture of friendship towards our country.Underscoring that upon the infrastructure we built in the past 20 years Trkiye reached the level where it could take care of its own needs in all areas including the defense industry President Erdoan said The rest is all about planning scaling developing and producing which means it is just a matter of time. With this conviction and determination we will inshallah turn 2023 the centenary of the proclamation of our Republic into the beginning of a new leap forward that will make the second century of our Republic the Century of Trkiye.
