Ankara’s response to Nikos Dendias? About an hour after the defense minister’s interview with SKAI, in which he made a reference about the marine park in the Aegean, the Turkish Ministry of Defense posted on the X message about the “Blue Homeland”. The creation of a marine park was also mentioned by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Citing a photo of warships, the Turkish Ministry of Defense reports characteristics according to Manolis Kostidis: “The Barbarossas of the Blue Homeland”.

It is noted that Mr. Dendias reported to SKAI about the marine parks, stressing that what Turkey did was not acceptable. In other words, in Antipaxos when I fish, I have to call the Turks if I can” and he added “if it is possible to ask Turkey’s permission to protect the environment of the Cyclades”.

Mr. Dendias explained that Turkey must realize that Greece has specific rights in the Aegean arising from International Law. She likes them well, she doesn’t like them well.” For the 12 mila he said there is a fixed position of sovereignty, and Greece will exercise it when the Greek interest dictates it.

“We will create two additional large marine national parks, one in the Ionian and one in the Aegean, increasing the size of our marine protected areas by 80% and covering about 1/3 of our territorial sea waters» clarifye for his part, Kyriakos Mitsotakis against his speech in 9th international conference “Our Ocean Conference”.

We will ban fishing with trawlers in our national marine parks by 2026 and in all marine protected areas by 2030, the Prime Minister underlined.