printed edition. Constantinople-Answer. Hours after Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a seismic survey in southwestern Crete and the Peloponnese, Turkey is trying to step up support for the Turkish-Libyan memorandum, as well as the recent agreement it signed with the Tripoli government on hydrocarbons. polls.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that “Last month, during our visit with the rest of my colleagues in Tripoli, we signed a memorandum of understanding on hydrocarbons. This has taken our collaboration to a higher level.” Mr. Cavusoglu noted that with these actions, Turkey is protecting the rights and interests of Turkey in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez, speaking of agreements with Libya, argued that “we were a country that, before the civil war, continued exploration and production in Libya. Turkish Petroleum conducted these operations there at certain production sites (“sites”). We took a break because of the war. Now negotiations have resumed. As you know, we have been there in recent months with a large delegation on behalf of our President. We also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) there. The Memorandum of Understanding includes cooperation in the field of oil and gas, cooperation in the field of research and production activities. We envisage cooperation in the field of exploration and production of oil on land and on the shelf.”

Mr. Domez said that “of course, there are countries that are not happy with this cooperation, and they are known. This is what worries them. If two free and sovereign countries have entered into an agreement of mutual cooperation, I think that third countries should not raise the issue.”

Journalists asked Mr. Tsavusoglu a question about the entry ban to the governor of Central Macedonia, Apostolos Tsitsikosta. The Turkish Foreign Minister stated that “there is no deliberate behavior here. For technical reasons, the entry of a Greek citizen into our country was delayed. After this technical problem was solved, the Greek citizen was allowed to enter our country.”
But Mr. Tsavusoglu threatened Athens with retaliation, as he argued that there are some prohibitions that Greece introduced deliberately. “We have alerted the Greek authorities about this. If the ban on the entry of some of our officials into Greece continues, we will take retaliatory measures,” he said. The information indicates that these names include Abdullah Eren, president of the Expatriate Turks and Kindred Communities (YTB), and former TRT CEO Ibrahim Eren.

Meanwhile, Mr. Cavusoglu, when asked by parliamentarians about the F-35, argued that “it is difficult to say anything about the F-35, but there are no problems with the F-16. The US balance has been upset in Cyprus and Greece. We have warned the US.”