Tensions have escalated between Greece and Turkey after Turkey entered the disputed waters in the eastern meditarranean region. On Tuesday, Turkey had sent a research vessel to carry out a seismic research for energy resources. The ship was looking for a potential scope of finding oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo.
Following this, Greece has planned to call out an
emergency meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council, as announced
by the Prime Minister’s office. Prime Minister of Turkey, Kyriakos Mitsotakis
and Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias met to come to this conclusion of involving
European Union in this matter.
Greece condemned the decision of Ankara to go ahead with
the search prospect and considers it to be an illegal act that infringes its
right as a sovereign country. Greek warships were in the area and were
monitoring the Oruc Reis, and the military was on alert, officials said. Recep
Tayyip Erdogan was called out by the EU to maintain the sovereignty of the
neighbouring countries and be in control of its action.
Greece considered this an effort from the end of Turkey to
prove its ambition to get hold of the wealth of the other countries. The
Republic of Cyprus and Greece do not accept any such rights for Turkish-controlled
Northern Cyprus in the region and the self-styled Republic, defended by
Erdogan, is not recognized internationally.
The two countries have been having a war of words from a
long and not less than three times were at brink of a war. They had issues from
a wide variety of things. Ankara’s response might have come from the deal that
closed between Egypt and Greece which delineated their bilateral maritime
boundaries and exclusive economic zones for rights to the exploitation of
resources. In 2019, Turkey also had signed a similar deal with the Libyan
government backed by the UN in Tripoli.
The Ankara Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, warned,
“Turkey will continue to show them and the world that this agreement is null
and void on the table and in the field.”
Strangely, a few days ago, Erdogan had asked for a
dialogue with Greece to resolve the disputes regarding the usage of resources.
This move completely contradicts his efforts. The matters went out of hand when
Turkey announced its seismic research on the Greece waters so much so that
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to intervene but that hardly stopped
Erdogan from doing what he wanted.
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