Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias: The Patriots in Karpathos were obviously not there to confront the Turkish threat. The reason for moving the Patriots to Karpathos — and also to Didymoteicho to cover Bulgaria — had to do with the threat of missiles from Iran. There have been no missile launches from Iran in the last six weeks or more. Therefore, there is no operational reason for their exposure at that specific location. Many times I have warned about the danger of ‘Turk-centric thinking.’ That is, interpreting everything, explaining everything, or referring everything to issues concerning our relations with Türkiye. That is not always the case. If Patriots were needed to confront the Turkish threat, then obviously, over all these years we have had them, some Greek government or General Staff would have placed them on some island in the eastern Aegean long ago. The fact that they were never placed there proves the obvious: they are not for that job.