Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece, has
expressed his deep concern about the danger of Greece's direct
engagement in a war, during an interview with the newspaper “Ethnos”
on Sunday. Koutsoumbas accusses the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government
for cultivating an environment of complacency regarding Turkey's
escalated aggression.
Responding
to those who repeat the argument that Greece's membership in NATO
consists a “factor of security”, the KKE Gen. Secretary reminds
that NATO and the EU are responsible for border changes in the region
since 1990s, always through wars and with the people's blood.
More
specifically, in the question if the situation between Greece and
Turkey in the Aegean can get out of control, Dimitris Koutsoumbas
replied:
The
KKE has consistently expressed its concern about the Turkish
provocation and agressiveness, for NATO's dangerous plans,
highlighting the causes of all these, unlike the SYRIZA-ANEL
government which follows a tactic of complacency and concealment.
Because, behind Erdogan's “internal consumption” arguments
expressed by government officials, there is the attempt of the
Turkish bourgeois class to upgrade its position, in contrast with the
Greek bourgeois class, in a region where “knives are pulled out”
between imperialist powers and powerful capitalist states, such as
the US, the EU, China, Russia and others. And that, in simple
translation, means danger for Greece's direct involvement in warfare.
The
General Secretary of the KKE also denounced NATO's “Pontius Pilate”
stance in the case of the two Greek soldiers who remain detained by
Turkish authorities in Edirne.
