We are ready to do whatever is necessary politically, economically and militarily, declared the head of the Eurasian nation, who urged the countries that oppose the Turkish presence in the area to decline destabilizing actions, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik.
His words refer to the signing by Greece and Egypt, the day before, of a new agreement to delimit maritime borders, which Ankara described as illegal and invalid.
Days ago, the People’s Republican Party, the main opposition force here, expressed support for the official position on the Turkey’s right to exploit the natural resources in the Mediterranean.
The spokesman of that political force, Faik Oztrak, declared to the Hurriyet newspaper that his country has the power to make any type of decision about its continental area, under the protection of International Law.
The Turkish ship Oruc Reis arrived at the Mediterranean two weeks ago to carry out oil prospecting work, an action that the Greek Executive considered as political blackmail.
This sequence of events fueled the tensions between Ankara and Athens that had been burning for months when last February Turkey opened its borders with the Greek nation at the boom of the Covid-19 in the area.
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