Turkey and Greece: Tug-of-War over Marine Parks?
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After almost three years of relative de-escalation, a series of Turkish initiatives, in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, and Greek military partnerships awaken the discord between the two neighbours.
In the island world of the Aegean, there is a new point of dispute between the two neighbouring countries: Greece declared in July 2025 two marine protection parks in the Ionian and Aegean Seas. Turkey now followed with two own marine parks. Athens protests, the Turkish protected areas crossed Turkish territorial waters and aimed to divide the Aegean Sea.
Turkey and Greece: tug-of-war over marine parks?
In an article on the HuffPost Greece website, journalist Konstantinos Kousantas calls on Athens to take more resolute action: “If Turkey’s intention to grant domestic legal status to the ‘Blue Homeland’ doctrine in October goes ahead, a full-blown dispute over half of the Aegean Sea will break out, with unpredictable consequences, including a conflict between the executive branches of both countries. … As long as our country delays extending it…
The need for composure and responsibility in the exercise of foreign policy, as well as for fiscal prudence in view of the TIF, was underlined by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yiannis Loverdos, speaking to ERTNews and Voula Malla. Referring to the new Turkish announcements on the marine parks in the Aegean, Mr. Loverdos described the development as negative, reiterating that, according to the Greek position, the specific parks are “non-exis…
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