The former Turkey premier, Mesut Yilmaz told ‘Birgun’ newspaper that during the premiership of Tansu Ciller, between 1995 and 1997, Turkish agents caused Greek forest fires.
Discussing secret budgets of the time, Yilmaz said that, “all premiers, when their tenure is over and their successor comes along, they have to inform him/her of how the secret budget was used. This is what I and my predecessors have done”. Erbakan, Ecevit and Demirel all followed the same path but Ciller did not, according to Yilmaz.
During 1995 to 1997, a period in which most Eastern Aegean islands and Macedonian forests were in the eye of the firestorms, the Greek Secret Service also had information about possible arsons from the Turkish side, but premiers Papandreou and Simitis had not managed to gather the necessary evidence.
From now on, what remains to be seen is if the bilateral relations between Greece and Turkey worsen or remain unaffected.
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