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The retired admiral and former deputy chief targeted natural gas fields in southern Crete. Turkish From the Navy, Cihat Yaici, with the Turkish media talking about “Impressive statements”.
Speaking on the “Take Tek” program in Haberturk, the Yaiji -that is considered “Architect” of the controversial agreement with Libya– provocatively highlighted that “In southern Crete there are gas fields that can meet Turkey’s needs for 572 years.”
These are maritime areas covered by the illegal Turkish-Libyan pact within the Greek continental shelf and right next to the Greek territorial waters. The former adviser to the president Erdogan, defended the agreement with Libya, saying that if you proceed to a new agreement with Greece in the future, you will lose, noting the importance of the deposits south of Crete. He specifically said: “By reaching an agreement with us, Libya, despite Greece’s agreement with Egypt, gained 39,000 square meters of military area. If a government appears in Libya and says that” we made a wrong agreement, we must give it to Greece “, it means which is losing an area equivalent to four times the area of Cyprus.
It is said that in this area are the richest hydrocarbon deposits in the world. In the south of Crete. Therefore, with the calculations that are being carried out at this moment, the deposits are at a level to cover the needs of Turkey for 572 years ”.
The retired admiral and former deputy commander of the Turkish Navy, is considered prime instigator of Ankara’s extreme claims in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, achieving that its extreme theories were totally adopted by Ankara in the context of the neo-Ottoman dreams of a “Blue Homeland”.
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