ISTANBUL – ANSWER. OUR Anchor reacted violently to her statements Athens and from Brussels for the memorandum of understanding signed between them Turkey and Libya and states that for these statements “they have no meaning and meaning”. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanzu Bilgiç said that “an objection to this cooperation agreement between two sovereign states is contrary to both international law and the basic principles of the UN.”

Mr. Bilgichs argued that Greece “is taking a maximalist position and is trying to encroach on the rights of Turkey and Libya. The EU’s support for Greece’s maximalist demands and its attitude towards avoiding fair dialogue and blocking international remedies is contrary to both its own law and international law. The EU is not an international judicial body for interpreting or adjudicating agreements between sovereign third countries,” said a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Ankara made proposals to Brussels, asking the “EU. and its member states not to go beyond their limits and powers and respect the sovereignty and equality of states in accordance with international law and the principles of the United Nations”.

Meanwhile, his government partner Recep Tayyip Erdogan, chairman of the Nationalist Action Party Devlet Bahceli he supported the same position as the Turkish president and spoke of “the occupied islands which were handed over to Greece on the condition that they would not be used for military purposes and would not be equipped.” In his speech to the parliamentary group of the party, Mr Bahtseli stated that “9 Turkish islands, which were transferred to Greece in the North Aegean on the condition that they remain without soldiers and weapons, were filled with soldiers and weapons.

The Greek islands now belong to Turkey due to militarization, Bahceli said.

Thus, the sovereignty, property rights, areas of maritime jurisdiction and airspace of the North Aegean islands – Thassos, Samothrace, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, Lesvos, Psara, Chios, Samos and Ikaria – now undeniably and legally belong to Turkey. The same applies to the Dodecanese.”

The statements of the president of the Nationalist Action Party came the day after an interview with Hulusi Akar, who stated that “you cannot arm the islands. You cannot militarize civilian islands. If you do this, it will be tantamount to withdrawing from the treaty.”

Finally, ruling party spokesman Omer Celik attacked Nikos Dendias and stated that “the Greek foreign minister is a warmonger, a dealer in constant tension. If Greece bans Dendias from performing for 6 months, for a year, this will lead to a significant reduction in tensions.”