Ο κύριος Ιωάννης Πατσιαβός του ΣΕΒ, καλεί τους Τούρκους να αγοράσουν Ελληνική δημόσια περιουσία, τώρα που η Ελλάδα “καίγεται” για μετρητό.

10:01 7/12/2011 - Πηγή: Olympia

Μεταξύ των οποίων, νησιά, Λιμάνια, αεροδρόμια και άλλα…

Αυτό, σύμφωνα με την Zaman.

‘Greek business group invited Turks to acquire state assets’

A key official from a powerful business group

in Greece told a visiting Young Executives and Businessmen’s Association (GYİAD) delegation last week in Athens that Turkish entrepreneurs should take advantage of extensive privatization tenders being held in the financially troubled country as part of its search for cash, the association said on Monday.

In a statement posted on its website, GYİAD said Athens-based Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) International Relations Coordinator Ioannis Patsiavos, extended an invitation for Turkish businesses to take part in tenders to acquire Greek state assets including air and naval ports as well as the country’s postal and telecommunications services companies. “We have held talks with Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and China in relation to the privatization process but [we forgot] there is our neighbor Turkey, which is highly important for us and standing closest to us. Twenty-nine airports — including Athens International Airport — public banks, a number of the 3,500 [Aegean] islands, ports, marinas, highways, railways, energy facilities, telecommunications firms, water purification facilities, natural gas, lottery and postal services, mines, refineries, renewable energy production centers, golf courses, hotels and 100 million square meters of real estate will be privatized. Nothing will remain as it was in Greece. As Greece’s largest business organization, we want the business world of our neighbor Turkey to also benefit from this extensive privatization opportunity, which includes everything from A to Z,” Patsiavos was quoted as saying.

Talk of asset acquisition between Turkey and Greece has always been a matter of heated debate as the neighbors had been each other’s fiercest foes for a long time. Although their relationship has progressed in a peaceful and much friendlier direction in the last few years, they still remain at odds over certain foreign policy issues, particularly the ongoing matter of Cyprus and the extension of territorial waters in the Aegean Sea.

An earlier plan by a Turkish businessman to acquire some Greek islands was met with sharp criticism from certain media outlets in the southwestern European nation. Opposition newspapers and political websites led the anti-Turkey rhetoric by expressing their belief that “Greece will be conquered by the Turks.” Among them, Eleutheri Ora, an ultra-nationalistic newspaper, argued this in its lead story shortly after Fikret İnan, chairman of construction company FİYAPI A.Ş. expressed his intention to buy at least three islands in the Aegean Sea. The previous Greek government led by former Prime Minister George Papandreou was accused collectively by the nation’s far-right media of having a pro-Turkish foreign policy that had opened the door to Turkish investors.