Turkey’s Mecca pact adds complexity for Athens as marine parks stir familiar concerns

PoliticsForeign Policy Tags: Defence, EastMed, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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For Athens, two recent developments - Turkey’s formal establishment of two marine parks and its participation in the new Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan - belong to different diplomatic theatres but appear to form part of the same strategic picture.

The immediate concern is the publication in Turkey’s Official Gazette of presidential decrees establishing marine parks in the northern Aegean, between Lemnos and Samothrace, and in the Eastern Mediterranean, around Kastellorizo. Athens sees the move as...

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