Hakan Fidan on Greek-Turkish: “Within the Aegean we shouldn’t have just one downside”

The everlasting positions of Ankara have been repeated by way of the Minister of Overseas Affairs of Turkey, Hakan Fidan, declaring, amongst different issues, that there is not any downside with Greece within the Aegean.

Only some days after his assembly together with his Greek counterpart in Athens, Giorgos Gerapetritis, Hakan Fidan, talking at the Turkish Haber TV, stated that there are a number of problems with Greece to be resolved: “There’s the militarization of the islands, the formations that it does no longer have resolve their standing, territorial waters, airspace” he stated, underlining that “we will transfer ahead with those problems when we do the right kind description”.

He then added that “there’s a procedure that has began and we’re discussing some problems overtly and truthfully. We intention to not escalate the stress. There’s a nice effort each from us and from the Greek facet, to stop the stress from expanding. And that is what we attempt to adhere to. However it is a delicate factor. As a result of we have now issues within the Aegean, as a result of within the Aegean we shouldn’t have only one downside, we have now many issues, we need to speak about them,” he stated.

The Turkish international minister underlined that the militarization of the islands is an issue for Turkey. “Which should be demilitarized, the continental shelf, territorial waters, puts whose standing has no longer been decided, the airspace, the EEZ. There are lots of problems. Those problems, when we make the right kind description, we will continue with the best method of fixing. We need to see how a special method can also be taken, taking a look in fact at earlier efforts. If there’s this chance” stated the Turkish president”.

After all, he added that “as a substitute of describing simplest the issues, let’s cross upper, and as our president says, the Aegean, which is an excellent setting, we need to flip it right into a paradise that serves prosperity, safety, peace , the happiness of each international locations. With political and army agreements that we can signal.”