On Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoنlu threatened to launch a war on Greece, which raises the current tension between the two countries to an unprecedented level.
"Greece cannot expand the borders of its territorial waters to 12 miles in the Aegean Sea, as this is a reason for war," said Cavusoglu, according to what was quoted by the official Anatolia Agency. Earlier, Turkish Vice President Fuad Aktay had threatened Greece with the same thing. Aktay said in a press statement, "If Athens’s attempts to expand its territorial waters were not a reason for war, then what was the reason?"
Greece responded to the speech of the Turkish Vice President, through its Foreign Ministry, which said in a statement, Saturday, that Athens' exercise of its sovereign rights is not subject to any form of Turkish veto. She added, "Turkey's belief that it can threaten neighboring countries with the use of force when they exercise their legal rights contradicts the principles of international law and contemporary political culture."
The Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced last week his government's intention to submit a bill to Parliament to expand its territorial waters in the Aegean Sea from 6 miles currently to 12 miles. Mitsotakis added that with this step, Greece is exercising "an inalienable and subordinate sovereign right."
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