Greece's inhumane pushback of illegal migrants in the Mediterranean, conducted as part of the EU's border patrol effort via the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) takes center stage in Turkiye's rebuttal on Germany's mention of human rights practices, questioning Osman Kavala's 4.5-year-long incarceration. In her first diplomatic visits to Greece and Türkiye, Germany's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock vouches for the Greek claims in the Aegean, indirectly honoring the illegal militarization of the demilitarized Greek islands. Her one-sided approach receives criticism from Turkish FM Mevlut Çavuşoğlu, who then mentions Greece's human rights abuses in the case of migrant pushbacks, and the mistreatment of Turkish-Greeks, considering Germany's support of Greece as one that tarnishes Germany's neutrality, risking her revered meditator position between the two neighbors.