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The German daily Die Welt, quoted by the Athens press, claims in an article published on Tuesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to provoke a military incident with Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The article, titled “Erdogan’s calculated war,” says that “if it had been after Erdogan, his military ships would have sunk a Greek ship in the Mediterranean long ago,” writes the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
He says Erdogan allegedly asked his generals a few days ago to sink a Greek ship, but to make sure no one was killed during the action, according to Die Welt, citing Turkish military sources. delicate.
However, the generals would have objected. Someone else in the Turkish president’s entourage would have suggested that a Greek fighter plane be shot down, because the pilot could have catapulted and not died. But the generals again refused.
Turkey and Greece have been embroiled for weeks in an increasingly militarized conflict sparked by the war over natural resources in the Mediterranean and control of exploration perimeters.
Turkey has invested heavily in offshore drilling vessels operating in both the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and as a victory, Erdogan recently announced that his country has discovered the largest natural gas field in its history in the Black Sea. near the Romanian perimeter Neptun Deep.
Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu proposed in Berlin, during the EU Foreign Ministers’ talks on the Greek-Turkish conflict over the exploration of the Mediterranean, that Turkey cease operations and impose a moratorium. on exploration in disputed maritime areas.
The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be decided at the European Council on September 24, in response to the dispute between Athens and Ankara over the Eastern Mediterranean, European Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Friday.
Those measures, aimed at limiting Turkey’s ability to explore for natural gas in disputed waters, could target people, ships or the use of European ports, Borrell said.
