TRAGIC - Greek Businessman Actually Begs Turks to Save Greek Factories

The chairman of the Greek-Turkish Business Council, Dimitris Papanicolaou, actually had the audacity to tell the Anatolia news agency in an interview earlier this week that the Greeks wanted Turkish businessmen to take over the factories in Greece, so that people would stop losing their jobs!

Papanicolaou, who is the deputy board chairman of Neon Energy, even went as far as inviting Turkish entrepreneurs to participate in the privatization tender of the Greek state-owned oil refining company, Hellenic Petroleum. He said he had already discussed the matter with Tupras, Turkey΄s leading oil refiner and crude exporter, but its executives are still cautious about possible risks.

Many production facilities and businesses are halting operations in Greece, suffering from dwindling sectors in the debt-crushed and austerity-buried country. This inspired Ahmet Haci Osman, who is a deputy from the Greek province of Rodopi, to state that they had already approached the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) to inform them about the current situation in Greece, as only five or six factories out of 96 are still operating in the Rodop region.

And we ask, how tragic is that?

An elite Golden Boy is asking the Turks to come to Greece and take over a major petroleum company, while a Muslim Greek is taking Greek national problems to Ankara and discussing ways in order to resolve them. For one we know that Turkey is vying for a piece of Greece's natural gas and reserves and selling them one of the leading refineries would only mean that they would be "controlling" or managing our own energy.

And two we know that Turkey wants to exert its influence in the region of Thrace in the framework of causing another Kosovo so having Turkish businessmen move in the area and suddenly begin managing its commercial activity is not something that would help towards dismantling the Ottomisation of this area.


Is it just us who see this for what it is, or has the world gone totally mad?

Are we part of the Ottoman Empire, and have to rush to the Sultans in Ankara and discuss our affairs with them, or is Greece a sovereign country?

Because if Greece is a free country, then these two men should be deported and sent across the Aegean sea.

They do not express the desires of the Greek people at all.


Ou na xathite... proodotes.