Should of outright told them no. All that'll happen is it'll be spun towards Greece's and the EUs favour and they'll bring this back as if they never asked for permission in the first place.
Another foreign policy misstep. Turkiye has a worse memory than my dad and he has dementia.
One thing about Europeans is that they think they're the highest possible form of human being, even balkan euros, who suddenly think the rest of Europe sees them as equals.
They don't. Just another house mentality
If we're on the edge of WW3, all the more reason to topple the 5th column being built in your country before it comes. Or do we want another Arab revolt that leaves Anatolia in a permanent meatgrinder like the traitor Arabs were rewarded with for the last 100 years?