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Turkey files protest with Greece and US as Aegean tensions rise
Turkey summons Greek ambassador and documents protest with US amid Aegean islands row, whilst Greece slams modern day flow as ‘unfounded’.
Ankara has summoned the Greek ambassador and protested to Washington after accusing Greece of deploying United States armoured motors on two Aegean islands close to the Turkish coast.
Greece branded the flow on Monday as “absolutely unfounded”, and accused Ankara of competitive behaviour.
Greece and Turkey, which might be both part of the US-led NATO defence alliance, have feuded for years over maritime borders and electricity exploration rights inside the Aegean and east Mediterranean seas.
The modern-day escalation started out while Turkish security resources shared aerial images over the weekend purportedly showing ships loaded with US armoured motors docking at Greek islands, Lesbos and Samos.
The Turkish foreign ministry informed the Greek envoy that Athens have to “forestall violations” and admire the non-navy reputation the islands had been assigned by means of worldwide regulation, the Anadolu nation news company suggested.
In a word to the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey informed Washington that its “guns ought to no longer be used in breach” of the islands’ agreed fame, Anadolu said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan one by one accused Greece of staging “provocations” and playing “perilous games”.
Athens rejected Ankara’s objections as “absolutely unfounded and incompatible with worldwide regulation”, AFP information employer stated a Greek diplomatic supply as pronouncing.
