Satisfaction in Athens, discomfort in Ankara

Satisfaction in Athens and Nicosia, discontent in Ankara was caused by the conclusions of the European leaders in Brussels about the Euro-Turkish relations and their direct connection with the developments in the Cyprus issue, while Turkey simultaneously escalates its rhetoric and about the announcement by Greece of the creation of two maritime parks in the Aegean and Ionian. A few weeks before Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on the other side of the Aegean, as he locked for Monday 13 May the four-four with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but also some 24 hours before the scheduled contacts on Confidence Building Measures, Turkey is returning to the strategy of tension.