January 16, 2020
Turkey-GR
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his provocative activities in the East Mediterranean and said on Thursday that Turkey would start granting licenses for exploration and drilling in the eastern Mediterranean in 2020, in accord with a maritime agreement with Libya. He added that vessel Oruc Reis would begin seismic activities …
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January 15, 2020
Greece, Politics
With a good portion of delay, the US State Department finally took position on the Turkey-Libya Agreement and Ankara’s Claims that the Greek islands have neither Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf. The agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea signed by Turkey and the Tripoli-based Government of National …
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January 14, 2020
Greece
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Tuesday that Greece has requested to attend the Berlin Peace Conference on Libya scheduled to take place on upcoming Sunday, January 19, 2020. The Conference is to take place upon an initiative of Chancellor Angela Merkel in an effort to discuss options to broker …
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January 9, 2020
Greece, Politics
The Foreign Ministers of Egypt, France, Cyprus, Greece and Italy met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss latest regional developments and the situation in East Mediterranean Sea. the five foreign Ministers issued a communique in which they condemned the Turkey-Libya Agreement. A day earlier, EU’s foreign policy chief and the …
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December 16, 2019
Greece, Turkey-GR, World GR
Referring to a map that essentially ignores the presence Greek islands such as Karpathos, Rhodes, Kasos, and obliterates Kastelorizo, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has outlined the sea area which he claims as Turkey’s “continental shelf” and where he said his country would “soon” conduced seismic surveys and begin drilling …
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December 12, 2019
Greece
Libya’s elected parliament president on Thursday vowed to invalidate a disputed maritime deal with Turkey signed with the rival UN-recognized government in Tripoli. Aguila Saleh was invited to visit Athens immediately after Greece learned of the Turkey-Libya agreement. “We are here to stress that the deal is invalid. Those who …
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December 12, 2019
Greece
The Greek Foreign Ministry suggests that Turkey blackmailed Libya so that the government in Tripolis signs the agreement of the “maritime boundaries in return of arms, weapons and ammunition. Citing diplomatic sources, media report that Athens has pictures in its hands documenting arms shipments from Turkey to Libya and in …
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December 12, 2019
Turkey-GR
“Turkey has applied to United Nations to register the agreement signed with Libya that sets the countries’ maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. Citing diplomatic sources, Anadolu said Ankara applied to the UN to register the memorandum on Wednesday. A Foreign Ministry official confirmed …
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December 11, 2019
Politics, World
An accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries is a violation of international law, European Union leaders will say on Thursday in support of Greece, which objects to the deal, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters. Greece last week expelled the Libyan ambassador in response to …
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December 10, 2019
World
“I have orders to sink as many Turkish ship arrive in Libya,” Admiral Faraz Al-Mahdawi told Greek media on Monday. Al-Mahdawi is the chief of the Libyan fleet under General Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army. “I have an order, if the Turkish research vessels come, to sink them. …
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December 9, 2019
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired new threats against Greece and said that “Greece will pay the price for its actions.” In an interview on Turkish public television TRT on Monday night and a few days after meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London, Erdogan escalated his rhetoric. However, …
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December 8, 2019
World
Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday announced that pacts with Turkey over maritime jurisdiction areas as well as military and security cooperation went into effect, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday evening. According to the Libyan GNA’s Justice Ministry, the internationally recognized government’s Presidential Council requested …
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December 6, 2019
Greece
Turkey and Libya reacted with anger at the decision of Greece to expel the Libyan ambassador to Athens. The foreign ministers of both countries condemned the expulsion as “unacceptable”, while Tripolis added that they would apply reciprocity had Greece an ambassador there. O, Friday morning, Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, …
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December 5, 2019
Turkey-GR
The Turkish Parliament ratified the memorandum of Understanding with Libya on Thursday evening. The MoU is in fact an Agreement renamed into Memorandum in order to avoid ratification by the Libyan Parliament that has disagreed with it. The pseudo-MoU has already condemned by Greece, the EU, US, Russia, Egypt, Israel …
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December 4, 2019
Greece
Frozen faces, tense smiles, ice-cold hands: Strangers in the room where Greeks and Turkish delegations met in London on the sidelines of the NATO Summit. The meeting between Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President,Tayyip Erdogan, including Foreign and Defense Ministers from both countries lasted exactly 1.35 hour. The …
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November 29, 2019
Greece
Greece threatens to expel the Libyan ambassador to Athens if he does not disclose the “maritime boundaries” Agreement between Libya and Turkey until next Thursday, December 5, Athens is concerned about the agreement that is supposed to determine the maritime boundaries between the two countries even though the island of …
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November 28, 2019
World
Turkey and Libya’s internationally recognized government have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea. There were no immediate details on the maritime accord, however, it looks like a further Turkish step towards a kind of “legitimization” of its usual unilateral claims in the Mediterranean Sea, challenging Greece …
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November 12, 2018
Uncategorized
Turkey claims that Greece is trying to steal part of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Libya. Defense Minister and retired Army General Hulusi Akar presented maps to convince about his claim. According to Akar, Greece is trying to misappropriate Libya’s rights to Exclusive Economic Zone bu seizing 39,000 square kilometers …
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March 16, 2018
Economy
Libya’s navy has seized an oil tanker suspected of illegally loading fuel and arrested its Greek crew, a navy spokesman said Thursday. The tanker was intercepted on Wednesday evening off Libya’s western coast, about eight nautical miles from the Abu Kamash oil plant, said spokesman Ayoub Kacem. Abu Kamash is …
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January 15, 2018
Very Mix
Libya’s Presidential Council has reportedly established contacts with Turkey and Greece to verify the news of the seizure of a ship in Greece carrying containers loaded with explosives after leaving a Turkish port. The Libyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday that it had demanded Greek authorities to …
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