Greece Gas Field Development Tour in Turkey Closed January 18 at 6:53

The Greek government has urged Turkey, which has been deepening over the development of gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, to set up an exclusive economic zone with the tentative government of Libya in North Africa, and top military organizations in opposition to the Libyan provisional government. And strongly crushed Turkey.

Greece is aiming to build a gas pipeline that crosses the Eastern Mediterranean with Israel and Cyprus, but Turkey, which has also launched its own gas field development in the Eastern Mediterranean, last November, a provisional government in Libya, located on the opposite bank. The exacerbations of both sides have been deepened by setting up exclusive economic zones in a way that hinders pipeline routes between the two.

The Greek government invited Hakhtar, the head of a military organization opposed to the provisional government of Libya, to the capital Athens on the 17th, and Prime Minister Mizotakis and Foreign Minister Dendias met successively.

After the talks, the Greek government repressed Turkey by appealing for cooperation with Mr. Haftar, stating that the exclusive economic zone set by the interim governments of Turkey and Libya had been agreed to be invalid.

An international conference will be held in Germany this weekend inviting the caretaker Prime Minister Schirage and Haftar in Libya, where the country has been divided into East and West and fighting continues.

Related nations such as the United States, Russia, and Turkey are also expected to participate in talks so that the two sides can agree on a ceasefire, but the ambitions of each country are inconsistent and bargaining is intensifying.

Gas field development

In the Eastern Mediterranean, gas fields have been discovered one after another since 2009, and are expected to have the potential to change the energy situation in a wide area including Europe.

Coastal countries and regions, such as Israel, Egypt, and Greece, are promoting energy cooperation, but Turkey is opposing these movements and is developing gas fields independently.

Behind this is the conflict with countries over the treatment of Cyprus, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean. In Cyprus, a major Greek population planned a coup in 1974, and Turkey dispatched troops to protect a minority Turkish population living on the northern side of the island. Later, the northern side of the island declared independence in 1983 and was approved by Turkey.

On the other hand, the EU = European Union approved accession in 2004 as the Republic of Cyprus on the southern side where many Greeks live.

Cyprus has been divided north and south for more than 40 years, and there is ongoing conflict between Turkey, which supports the north, and countries which support the south.

In the meantime, when a gas field was discovered offshore south of Cyprus, Turkey insisted that the northern Turkish population also had rights.

In this gas field, the southern side of Cyprus and other coastal countries are working together to build a gas pipeline, but Turkey reached a deal last November with a provisional government in Libya, North Africa, on the opposite shore. In order to block the pipeline route, EEZ has concluded an agreement to establish an exclusive economic zone.

In a speech on Tuesday, Turkish President Erdogan said in a statement: `` It has become legally impossible to mine or pipeline in the Mediterranean waters between Turkey and Libya without consent. "And defended the rights of Turkey and Cyprus to the north.

At a Ministerial-level meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement and stated that peace and cooperation in the region were being carried out in an effort to eliminate Turkey and the northern part of Cyprus. I decided that it would not be useful.