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They give a week to clarify their position France Y Germany in Turkey, following Ankara’s current challenges in the eastern Mediterranean, according to Reuters.
Ignoring the conclusions of the October 2 Summit, whose objective was to persuade the Turkey To suspend gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, Ankara announced on Wednesday that it will resume exploration, which it had suspended last month.
“It is obvious to us that Turkey insists on provocative actions that are unacceptable.” said the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian during a press conference with his German and Polish counterpart. He added that the “ball” is now in Ankara, but the EU is ready to shift the balance of power in case Turkey does not respond to the dialogue.
Le Drian also criticized Turkey’s role in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Ankara supports Azerbaijan against the Armenians, Reuters reports. “There will be no military victory on this issue, and therefore there must be a truce” make a note of.
“What we are seeing today is that Turkey alone does not support the ceasefire and that is harmful.” added.
For his part, the German Foreign Minister, Haiko maas, characterized “unacceptableWhen asked about the possibility of imposing sanctions on Ankara, he said the EU would wait a week before deciding how to react.
“This is the second time that the expected talks have not taken place and we do not know when it will happen.” he said. “We will have to wait and see if there is progress in a week and then we will decide what attitude the EU should take.”
From today Summit it is now becoming especially important for Greek interests, as pressure is expected to intensify on Ankara to stop attacks and provocations.
Turkey’s escalation scenarios after the Summit
At the same time, in Athens, the scenario that the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministries responsible for National Defense and Foreign Affairs are considering is the possibility that the Oruc Reis and the warships that accompany it, approach the border current Greek territorial waters, in an area about 6 miles from Kastelorizo, as of Saturday October 17, that is, immediately after the conclusion of the European Council.
This is due to Berlin’s reluctance to decide and impose sanctions on Turkey At the summit that begins today, combined with the abandonment of the German mediation effort, it is like sending the message to Erdogan that he can continue down the path of aggressive provocation, without any limit beyond which European countermeasures can be activated. .
For the continuation of the crisis, it is important to assess that the guarantees of the German de-escalation agent to restart the dialogue turned out to be a blank slate and simply gave time to Tayyip erdogan to prepare for his next move and openly revealed that Berlin, which is continuing its six-submarine construction program for the Turkish Navy, is acting as nothing more than an honest mediator, refusing even now to pass sanctions that could stop Turkish aggression.
The Greek government, 15 days after the previous summit, where Europeans reportedly sent Tayyip Erdogan an ultimatum to stop the provocations, realizes that the verbal warnings to Ankara are empty. Furthermore, the Turkish government even accused Greece of conducting military exercises on Greek soil, on the islands and in Thrace, even demanding the cancellation of the sale of Israeli-made UAVs, acting as if it was dictating conditions to Athens after a defeat in a war. confrontation!
At the same time, Turkey insists on the challenges, as it gets to the point of … taunting Greece for the incident with the government plane Embraer, which was transmitted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias.
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