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“The balance in the Eastern Mediterranean has changed a lot,” wrote the Turkish daily Milli Gazeta today on the occasion of the United States’ declared desire to join the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum. The newspaper said it was less than a month before the new Joe Biden administration took its first step against Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean.
“Turkey out, America in,” reads the headline. Milli Gazeta points out that “The United States, which opposes Turkey and the TFR (the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) in the battle for energy distribution and sovereign zones, has applied to be a member of the Eastern Mediterranean Forum.” The United States has received an invitation for “permanent observer” status from forum members, which excludes Turkey from the equation in the eastern Mediterranean, the newspaper said.
The Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum was established in Cairo in 2019 to ensure coordination among members for the optimal utilization of energy sources and natural gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean and to create a regional gas market serving to the objectives of the member states, recalls the Turkish edition. Apart from Turkey, Syria and Lebanon are also out of the forum.
“Know your place America,” Dirilish Postas wrote in a headline today, citing Ankara’s reactions to US concerns about police interference in student protests in Istanbul. The Foreign Ministry said that no one had the right to interfere inside Turkey. The newspaper also cited the position of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman Yomer Celik, who also rejected the concerns expressed by the United States.
“This is a political statement. We see it as interference in our internal affairs and we reject it,” he said.
“Dirilish Postas” notes that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was quick to ask students to be left alone and to openly support LGBT groups that “insult Muslim holy values.”
According to the publication, the commissariat applies a double standard, which is evident in its attitude towards the protests in France on the one hand and the current ones in Turkey on the other.
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