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In a statement Tuesday night, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy responded to a State Department statement urging Ankara to end the “pre-planned” challenge, which characterized the new mobility of the Turkish researcher. Oruc Reis in the eastern Mediterranean.
In his statement, Aksoi spoke of a “contradiction” between the United States, which said it criticized Oruc Reis’s criticism of the “Turkish continental shelf” and that the Seville Charter lacked force.
According to Aksoi, the side that is increasing tensions in the Mediterranean and Aegean is not Turkey, but Greece and the Republic of Cyprus, adding that since September 12, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has demonstrated “Greek actions that they lead in climbing. “
A few hours earlier, in fact, the Turkish Foreign Minister had published an unofficial document, accusing Greece of escalation in the eastern Mediterranean, highlighting that these actions show that Greece is moving “backwards” before the start of the contacts. exploratory.
In the document published by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and entitled “Escalation actions from Athens to the eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean as of September 12”, it is recorded as such:
Greek military and naval forces in Kastellorizo
Joint Greek-American Military Exercises, September 14-18 in Thrace
NAVTEX of September 15 for military exercises in Chios, which, according to Ankara, is in the process of demilitarization, while the same is reported for exercises in Lemnos on September 23 and 24.
Air exercises in Chios, Kos and Rhodes and the corresponding NOTAMs for the period between September 27 and October 2, which, according to Turkey, “also affected free aviation in international airspace”
Greece constantly issues instructions, covering long periods of time, but also a large area of international airspace, according to Ankara, with references to exercises on Lesbos and Chios.
According to Turkey’s foreign minister, Greece also violated the 1988 bilateral agreement, by announcing two exercises on October 29, a national holiday for Turkey, a move that, it says, led Turkey to announce military exercises on October 28. .
It refers to the recent directive, between October 13 and 18, that covers the Oruch Reyes research area.
Closing the non-paper, he talks about the information that Greece is acquiring drones from Israel, which according to Turkey’s foreign minister, it intends to use in the region.
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