The Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources made provocative statements on Tuesday Alparslan Bayraktar at the Trabzon Regular Regional Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

“We said that Turkey should be a country that seeks, finds and produces its own natural gas and oil, and when we started in 2016, we said: From now on, with our own ships, we will not leave a single unexplored place in the Mediterraneanthe Black Sea and the “Blue Homeland”. First the Fatih, then the Yavuz, then the Kanuni, which, as you know, are very relevant to Trebizond, and then the Abdülhamit Han ships were added to our fleet. Today, thank God, Turkey has become one of the countries with the most modern naval fleet in the world” iBayraktar broke down as reported by Manolis Kostidis.

“We understand that foreigners are disturbed, but there were also those among us who were disturbed. As you know, now they say about the “Blue Homeland”: “Get over the fairy tale of the “Blue Homeland”. We tell them: “The ‘Blue Homeland’ is not a fairy tale, the ‘Blue Homeland’ is the epic of Turkish shipping, God willing.” insisted the Turkish energy minister, leaving spikes for the opposition.

“They all left us alone in the Mediterranean. They said, ”We are not in these investigations together with Turkey. It is the maritime jurisdiction of Greece.” They said one thing and another, and left us to our fate. We trusted our own people, our own engineers, our own sailors and along the way, we have drilled 9 deep sea wells in the Mediterranean alone. In 2020, we made the largest natural gas discovery in the Black Sea in the history of the T/Republic. We discovered 710 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Sakarya gas field.”

“We will continue the search for oil and natural gas in the Black Sea, in the ‘Blue Homeland’. Turkey has now become a country that looks for oil not only in Turkey, not only in the “Blue Homeland”, but also in Somalia” he stated not.