Some people are trying very hard to frighten us, especially Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his circle. A man of God once told me that with all these intimidations in the Aegean, in Thrace, by stirring up others in Skopje, and here in Cyprus with our natural gas, they have one goal: to fill the hearts of the Cypriots—and also our leaders—with fear.
One sign that we, fearful Christians of this age, will witness is the fall of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. What kind of fall it will be, I do not know. Whether political or personal, I cannot say, but the man will fall. He is arrogant, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled.
I used to say that the greatest allies of modern Hellenism, weak as some may call it, are our saints—and also Erdoğan himself. His arrogance.
So the sign we should expect is that immediately after him, others will take power, more pro-Western figures who will not carry the vision of the Ottoman Empire. Nothing truly serious will happen while Erdoğan is still alive and ruling. The serious events will come after his fall. This is what contemporary holy men who claim to have spiritual insight tell us, because they believe he will collapse through his own pride.
When he falls, then the great events will begin. Keep this as a sign. But even during those difficult times, Cyprus will have great protection—and
even greater protection if we use these months with deep prayer and repentance.
Erdoğan himself will do very little against us. He is intelligent in some ways and knows how to negotiate, but his arrogance will lead to his own self-destruction. He may create a small incident, something limited, and then he will fall. After Erdoğan, others will rise in Turkey—politically inexperienced, pro-Western leaders—and they are the ones who will create the greater disaster for Turkey.
What will happen then is that they will damage their friendship with Russia, provoke Russia’s anger, and history has shown that whoever underestimates the Russians eventually fears them.
