Turkey issued a new Navtex yesterday, with which it brings back the issue of the demilitarized islands.

As Manolis Kostidis reports from Constantinople, the Smyrna Hydrographic Station reports: “The islands of Thassos, Agios Eustratios, Psara, Samothraki, Limnos, Lesvos, Chios, Ikaria, Samos, Astypalaia, Rhodes, Chalki, Karpathos, Kasos, Tilos, Nisyros . treaty of Paris of 1947. For this reason no military actions should be carried out within the territorial waters of these islands.

But against the international conditions, Navtex are issued by some stations for military actions in areas that include the territorial waters of these islands, which can cause a danger to safe navigation”.

All of these islands, according to Ankara, must be demilitarized, must not have military forces and must not hold military exercises.

At the same time, Turkey is reserving an area in the Aegean from Samos to Tinos to carry out its own exercises, as shown in the map below:

Erdogan’s trip to Egypt to meet Sisi

The Turkish media reports: “He accused him of being a dictator and said he would not meet him. Now she is traveling to Egypt to see him.”

SOZCU TV: Erdogan was in the United Arab Emirates. Not in the distant past, in statements the Gulf countries were accused of financiers of the coup attempt. On February 14, Erdogan will make another attention-grabbing visit. The two leaders will be photographed in front of the cameras. The two leaders will not sit opposite each other but next to each other. And the evaluation of the 12 years where contacts were cut off will take place.”

Turkish opposition: “The F-16 deal with the US is a fiasco”

“Greece will be superior in aviation in the Aegean. It will have Rafale, F-16 BLOCK-70 AND F-35”

Utku Tsakirozer, MP of the Republican People’s Party, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament: “This arms deal deserves to go down in history as a fiasco and not as a success. In parallel with the agreement to sell F-16s to Turkey, the US government sent to Congress the sale of 40 new generation F-35 fighter jets to Greece.

Greece will become, for the first time in its history, superior in terms of air force in the Aegean. And this is because Greece has already started the plan to renew its aging F-16s. In addition to the French Rafale fighter jets, Greece, which will renew its aging F-16s, will now also have the 5th generation F-35s, which have the latest and most advanced technology. On the other hand, Turkey will buy 4th generation F-16s and strengthen its old F-16s.”

Turkey is hoping for an agreement on maritime zones with Egypt

Turkish analysts: “Greece with Kastellorizo ​​claims space in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has no such right”

Ekrem Kiziltas, journalist: “You know that here there is a small island of 11 sq. km, Kastellorizo, with which Greece is trying to have a presence in the Eastern Mediterranean. Although Greece knows that with the islands it cannot claim an Exclusive Economic Zone through Kastellorizos, it issues nonsense like the map of Seville and tries to squeeze Turkey with the support of the Western powers. When Turkey agreed with Libya, the situation changed. What the Greeks are saying is for the West to talk to Sisi and stop Egypt from coming to an agreement with Turkey. The West can do that. Also noteworthy is the cost aspect of the issue… While Greece will pay $8.6 billion for 40 of the more expensive F-35s and their associated subsystems, Turkey will pay $23 billion for 40 lower-generation F-16s and 79 upgrade kit’.