Greek politician blames administration of 'turning country into huge US base'

(MENAFN) Greek politician Kleon Grigoriadis has blamed the administration of changing the nation to a "huge US base."

During an address in parliament, Grigoriadis, a deputy of the left-wing MeRA25 party, convicted the administration of Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis over its external rule.

He stated an atmosphere of conflict with Türkiye has been created in the media.

"At the moment, American soldiers, not Turkish soldiers, are wandering in Crete, Alexandroupoli, Larisa, and other areas left by (the left-wing party) Syriza's old comrades to the United States. Let's be clear: Greece has now turned into a huge US base."

He went on to say that the creation of such a perception was aimed at intimidating Greek citizens so that the conversion of Greece into a US base would be acceptable.

Grigoriadis added: "History shows that big powers use small powers as tools and use them for their own interests regardless of the pain they may cause. As in 22 (1922)" stating that the Greek people have to learn from the past.

"They are now using us as useful idiots, just as they used Greece as a distraction against Kemal's (Ataturk) new Turks so that the great powers could easily reach out without resistance to the oil fields in the Middle East that were then under Ottoman rule," he went on to say.

"The time period we live in demands that we learn this lesson well," he finished.

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