“We will not allow the perfection” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday in an interview with Norwegian counterpart Esper Bart Eide in the shadow of Athens’ decision to proceed with Greece’s maritime planning.

On the other hand, dear friends, we protect our rights and interests to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean to the end, said Fidan, according to SKAI correspondent in Constantinople Manolis Kostidis.

“In 2020, we recorded the outer boundaries of our continental shelf before the United Nations and the claim that drilling in our continental shelf is untrue … At the same time, we conducted seismic surveys and drilling within our continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean. The priorities we have in the Eastern Mediterranean. Documented, ”the Turkish Foreign Minister said.

The Turkish official said that “we have prepared our maritime spatial planning in relation to the Aegean Sea and will present it to the competent bodies of the United Nations”. “Everyone already knows that we will not allow any unilateral step or an event in Cyprus, the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean” said Hakan Fidan.

“There are some circles asking questions:” What do you do in these geography? What do you do in the other geography? ” and so on, these questions link them to politics and party preferences and do not base them on science and efficiency research … They use them as a propaganda tool.

“There is a very rich field there, from which our country is gaining great benefit in the field of energy. The development and further expansion of the deposits there is today implemented as ‘number’ a priority of our energy policy, thereby contributing to the national economy. Of course, our priorities will continue to be implemented.”