{"id":5572,"date":"2025-03-26T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/right-wing-mp-backs-navy-cadets-over-nationalist-slogans\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:22:02","slug":"right-wing-mp-backs-navy-cadets-over-nationalist-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/right-wing-mp-backs-navy-cadets-over-nationalist-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing MP Backs Navy Cadets Over Nationalist Slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"A\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ATHENS \u2013 Thanos Plevris, a right-wing MP from Greece\u2019s ruling New Democracy party, has defended Navy cadets who chanted nationalist slogans, including \u201cCyprus is Greek,\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s Independence Day parade. The incident, involving trainees from the Navy\u2019s non-commissioned officers\u2019 school, drew criticism from Turkey and prompted a Greek investigation.<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on Skai TV, Plevris downplayed the controversy, arguing that such slogans are part of combat training and fitting for a day marking Greece\u2019s liberation from Ottoman rule. \u201cThese are sailors I\u2019d want on a Belharra frigate\u2014not singing \u2018My Little Pony,\u2019\u201d he quipped, rejecting calls to punish the cadets. He also slammed Turkey\u2019s Blue Homeland doctrine and its hold on northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>The government condemned the chants, with a source telling Kathimerini, \u201cStrength isn\u2019t shown through slogans.\u201d Plevris, a former health minister, joined New Democracy in 2012 after serving with a smaller populist party.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tAthens, Blue Homeland, Cyprus, Greece, Greek news, greek news today, Independence Day, nationalist slogans, Navy cadets, New Democracy, Skai TV, Thanos Plevris, Turkey\t<\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/right-wing-mp-backs-navy-cadets-over-nationalist-slogans\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2013 Thanos Plevris, a right-wing MP from Greece\u2019s ruling New Democracy party, has defended Navy cadets who chanted nationalist slogans, including \u201cCyprus is Greek,\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s Independence Day parade. The incident, involving trainees from the Navy\u2019s non-commissioned officers\u2019 school, drew criticism from Turkey and prompted a Greek investigation. Speaking on Skai TV, Plevris downplayed &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Right-Wing MP Backs Navy Cadets Over Nationalist Slogans\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/right-wing-mp-backs-navy-cadets-over-nationalist-slogans\/#more-5572\" aria-label=\"Read more about Right-Wing MP Backs Navy Cadets Over Nationalist Slogans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/plevris_web-1-320x200-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}