A two-month moratorium on Eastern Mediterraneanby the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoganseems to generate more interest outside the country than inside it. The exception is criticism of factors such as retired admiral Jihat Yaichi, who is the ideological “father” of her naval strategy. Turkey which eventually took the form of the so-called “blue motherland“.

A Turkish retiree, through the account of the think tank he leads (Turkish Center for Maritime and Global Strategy), said: “Our fears have come true! The first duty place of the drilling rig”Abdul Hamid Khan– Yorukler-1 well, 55 kilometers from the coast of Gazi Pasha. That is, within the map of Seville, which locks us in the Gulf of Antalya … We do not know what to say.

The map of Seville is a document representing exclusive economic zones (EEZ) Greece and the Republic of Cyprus to their greatest extent in the Eastern Mediterranean and is regarded by the Turks as an example of Greek “expansionism”. Mr. Yaiqi’s criticism is of course of limited value, since the retired admiral (who happened to be discharged from the army … at the tacit initiative of the Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar which did not want an independent pole of leadership from its maritime neighbor) does not have any significant political shift, despite its efforts in this direction.

At the same time, however, messages sent to Athens from Ankara tend to maintain strategic, albeit low, but real tensions. In the practice of constantly releasing videos taken by UAVs, the Coast Guard has been accused of violent acts. repeat promotions. Of course, this message has another dimension, as it essentially reports in the form of a psychological operation that Turkish UAVs can have a 24-hour operational image in the Aegean Sea. If yesterday a relatively small number of violations (13) were recorded, then seven of them resulted in virtual dogfights between Greek and Turkish fighters.