Turkey says Muslim countries concerned by Israel-Greece-Cyprus alliance

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday that Muslim countries in the region are concerned by a growing military alliance between Israel, Greece and Cyprus.

Fidan said Greece had joined this grouping despite being a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato). 

“No one has given assurances to us that this wasn’t an initiative against us before or after its founding,” Fidan said during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in southern Turkey.

He also referred to comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while standing alongside the Greek prime minister and the Cypriot president at a trilateral summit in Israel last year.

At a press conference in December, Netanyahu said: “To those who fantasise they can re-establish their empires and their dominion over our lands, I say: Forget it. It’s not going to happen. Don’t even think about it,” in an apparent reference to Turkey.

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