Greek diplomacy insists on emphasizing the continuous internationalization of Turkish provocation, in the context of the goal it has set of not leaving any international step “unexploited”.
By Penelope Galliou
Loud message allied power to Turkey send together Greece and Israel responding to the escalating Turkish provocation that continues to fuel tension in the Eastern Mediterranean. THE permission given by Athens to Tel Aviv to conduct military exercises from July 26 to August 5 in areas south of Cretewhich coincide with illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandumthey send a clear message disputing the Turkish non-existent complaints for the region, while at the same time they are a seal of Greece’s strong alliances that stand against any movement of revisionism and violation of International Law and the Law of the Sea.
Violations that Turkey immediately confirmed, with the anti-navtex issued by Antalya for the specific Israeli exercise, without any jurisdiction in the area, binding areas between Rhodes – Karpathos and Kastellorizo for its own aeronautical exercise on August 3.
The Greece-Israel message becomes even more resonant given her pre-announcement of drilling by the Turkish drilling rig “Abduhamit Khan” on August 9 according to Turkish officials, in the Eastern Mediterranean. An eventuality for which the Greek side is fully prepared and alert, both at the diplomatic and operational level. After all, it is not excluded, according to analysts, the Turkey is preparing a tension with the drilling rig, although as they say the “advantage” of surprise, which Ankara would probably seek, was lost. The same estimates also state that the most likely is “Abdul Hamid Khan” to move East and not Westtowards the Aegean, because otherwise, as government sources clearly warn “if Ankara chooses to move further west, then it will have to face the strong reaction and strong resistance of countries, first and foremost Greece”.
In any case, the Israeli exercise with the permission of Athens south of Crete, is according to experts, “another move that strengthens the axis that has been created between Greece and Israel” and concerns the integration of the two Mediterranean countries, in a series of issues and interests, for which they have a common orientation and view. At the same time, this “collusion” is another proof that the Turkish-Libyan pact is illegal and non-existent, while it is emphatically reminded that it has not been accepted by any country worldwide.
At the same time, however, with the strengthening of Greece’s international alliances, Greek diplomacy insists on emphasizing the uninterrupted internationalization of Turkish provocation, in the context of the goal he has set not to leave any international step “unexploited”. In this context, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias from Cambodia, where he made an official visit, informed his Chinese counterpart about the developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean. “I had the opportunity to accept his assurance of support for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and sovereign rights of Greece in the face of the challenges it faces“, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, about his contacts with the head of Chinese diplomacy.
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