OR Turkey will not allow “unilateral actions or performed in the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus”, he said. Hakan Fidan after Greece’s decision to proceed with the country’s maritime planning.
THE Hakan Fidan In a joint interview with the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Esper Bart Eideearlier today (24.04.2025) in Ankara, stressed that Turkey has prepared its own Marine spatial planning For the Aegean Sea “and we will present it to the competent bodies of the United Nations”.
“In 2020, we recorded the outer boundaries of our continental shelf before the United Nations and the claim that drilling in our continental shelf was untrue … At the same time, we conducted seismic surveys and drilling within our continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean. The priorities we have set for drilling and hydrocarbon exploration are scientifically documented, “the Turkish Foreign Minister said and said:
«Everyone already knows that we will not allow any unilateral step or an event in Cyprus, the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean».
It is recalled that, On the same day that the Greek Foreign Ministry has released the map with the maritime spatial planning, The Turkish side rushed to leak a map – “study” of a Turkish university, with its own design. Indeed, the announcement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Greek planning “violates Turkey’s rights in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean”.
«We will protect to the end our rights and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean“, Fidan stressed, commenting, among other things, the Cyprus issue.
“The Federation’s solution is out of debate, whatever the Greeks and the European Union say,” he added.
source: OnAlert.gr