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🇬🇷 Yunan Hava Kuvvetleri Genelkurmay Başkanı Grigoriadis: Mutlak sayılar birbirine çok yakın olsa da, Yunan Hava Kuvvetleri üstün ve daha gelişmiş sistemlere sahip olduğu için gökyüzünde hakimiyetini sürdürüyor. NATO tatbikatlarının tamamında değeri uluslararası alanda kabul görmüş insan kaynaklarımızdan bahsetmeme bile gerek yok. Kimseyi hafife almıyoruz, ancak düşman herhangi bir girişimde bulunmadan önce bunu birçok kez düşünmek zorunda kalacak. Sahip olduğumuz ateş gücü ulusal güvenliği tamamen garanti altına alıyor."

No...obviously! Here is the traslation: Article 14 of the Treaty of Peace of Paris (1947) does indeed state in paragraph 2 that these islands “will remain demilitarized”. However, Turkey cannot legally invoke this provision:According to Article 34 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a treaty is binding and creates rights or obligations only between the states that are parties to it.Turkey chose to remain neutral in World War II and did not sign the Paris Peace Treaty. Legally, Turkey is a “third state”. It cannot demand compliance or non-compliance with a treaty to which it is not a contracting party. Only Italy or the other signatory powers (e.g. the USA or Russia) would have the theoretical right to raise such an issue, which they have not done…Moreover, the demilitarization clause was imposed in 1947 exclusively due to pressure from the Soviet Union (USSR). Since the Cold War had already begun, Stalin did not want the Dodecanese to be turned into American/NATO military bases that would threaten Soviet ships exiting the Black Sea. In short, the clause served Soviet geostrategic interests of that era and had absolutely nothing to do with Turkey’s security…And if that’s not enough (as I always say), Article 103 of the United Nations Charter explicitly states that the obligations of states under the UN Charter prevail over any other international treaty.Article 51 of the UN Charter establishes the “inherent right of individual or collective self-defense” of every state that faces a threat. From the moment Turkey established the Aegean Army in 1975 (a purely offensive landing force positioned right opposite the islands) and has officially instituted a casus belli (threat of war) against Greece, Greece has the absolute, legal right to defend itself and to fortify its territories! ---------------- I asked Grok to translate it for me so I wouldn't have to rewrite everything.