Athens condemns Turkey’s marine parks as illegal; tensions rise at awkward moment for PM

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: EastMed, Mitsotakis, Turkey
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Turkey has reignited tensions in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean with the publication of two presidential decrees establishing national marine parks in areas that Greece considers to lie either in international waters or within its own continental shelf.

The move, presented by Ankara as an environmental initiative, is viewed in Athens as a calculated attempt to advance Turkey’s revisionist maritime agenda, and it arrives at a moment when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis would have preferred calm ahead...

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