The article explains the Turkish idea of the “Blue Homeland” and citing a diplomatic source notes that the memorandum on the delimitation of maritime zones that Turkey signed with Libya “is illegal and contrary to the law of the sea.”
In a report entitled “Escalation. “Against Greece, Turkey is showing its teeth,” the newspaper said Liberation notes that in view of the 2023 presidential elections and in the context of a galloping inflation, Turkish President Erdogan is multiplying the declarations of war against Greece.
“After Mitsotaki’s visit to the USA, Fr. Erdogan became nervous. “But we are not entering into this rhetorical game,” Tassos Hadjivassiliou, a New Democracy lawmaker and the party’s international relations official, told the newspaper, noting that the Turkish president was “primarily addressing domestic public opinion.”
If that’s one of his goals Erdogan another is the “pursuit of regional hegemony”, the newspaper also reports, stressing that the proof is the occupation of Northern Cyprus since 1974 or a large part of Northern Syria and Iraq.
The article explains the Turkish idea of ”Blue Homeland” and citing a diplomatic source notes that the memorandum on the delimitation of maritime zones that Turkey signed with the government of the Libyan National Accord in November 2019, “instead of illegal of the sea”.
“Deep down, Erdogan is trying to give a legal framework to his idea of a Blue Homeland. He believes that, at the moment, with the conflict in Ukraine, the role he plays there and the precedent created by the Russians, he has an opportunity to promote his illegal position “, says Tassos Hadjivassiliou in the newspaper, pointing out that Greece is” the guarantor stability and democracy in the region “.
