Greek Leader Says He Will Discuss ‘Aggressive’ Turkey With Trump
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Greece is getting worried about Turkey’s efforts to impose its authority on the eastern Mediterranean and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to raise the issue with Donald Trump.
The Greeks are concerned that Turkey could start drilling for oil and gas in its waters after its neighbor sealed a maritime-border deal with Libya in December. Ankara is already locked in a dispute with the European Union over its exploration activities off the coast of Cyprus and officials in Athens would feel obliged to respond if Turkey repeated that maneuver in a stretch of sea recognized as Greek by an international maritime treaty.