“What will Libya do now together with Turkey?” Will he call a seismograph?’ pointed out Manolis Kostidis
Re-approach… yuck. Turkey is shocked by the decision of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to demarcate the maritime borders with Libya, which directly challenges the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. And all this, when Tayyip Erdogan declared after his meeting with Sisi that the bilateral relations between Cairo and Ankara would improve… The Sisi decree shields Crete as well.
“It is a shield for Crete for Greek positions on hydrocarbon exploration south of Crete, and cancels the whole logic of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Egypt is a big and serious state, it does not make hasty moves with a long-term view. They saw this in Turkey, and they consider it a negative step”, stressed Manolis Kostidis.
“What will Libya do now together with Turkey?” Will he call a seismograph?’ pointed out Manolis Kostidis. “Greece plays an important role as Egypt’s bridge to the EU, and Egypt sees that.”
Also, it does not seem to be a coincidence that the timing chosen by the Egyptian president to proceed with the delimitation of the EEZ, as it comes one day after the statements of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that he will “defend the Turkish-Libyan memorandum”, and after the corresponding joint letter from Ankara – Tripoli to the UN.
The new developments were also the subject of the foreign minister’s phone call Nikos Dendias with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry “in the context of the ongoing Greece-Egypt coordination”.
Indicative are the comments on the Turkish network Haber Global as broadcast by the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul:
“Where we were wondering if Egypt would keep up with Greece’s provocations a negative step was taken. Egypt made a move that could flare up the issue of defining maritime areas of responsibility and on the brink of Turkey’s rapprochement with Egypt and just days after Erdogan met Sisi. Sisi signed a decree by which Egypt violates the agreement between Turkey and Libya that defined maritime areas of responsibility” noted the presenter.
“The published decree violates the boundaries of the maritime areas of responsibility established in 2019 by Turkey and Libya… Now Egypt claims territories in the Libyan region. Sisi’s decision satisfied Greece” the Turkish report said.
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