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Nearly 95% of Greece's natural gas reserves are in South-West Crete and Western Greece not bordering with Turkey.
So this devious malevolant cuntry called Turkey decided to claim those reserves via Libya, by encouraging or rather blackmailing Libya (as Jerusalem Post recently revealed) to drill into Greece's EEZ by illegally granting licences to Turkish companies. Turkey argues that Crete being an island is not entitled to EEZ nor the right to extend it's waters to 12 miles as Turkey and every country in the world have done.
Not content with laying claim on Crete's riches, it is also after the natural gas in Western Greece. It has signed a military agreement with Albania and now has naval and air bases in Albania. Now they have agreed to station Turkish troops there. It also "forbids" Albania to accept any delimitazion of EEZ with Greece against all concepts of International law.
It has maliciously encircled Greece and essentially denies any legal rights to all islands. It wants to trap the Greek islands, which generate an important part of Greek GDP, within what it sees as Turkish territorial waters essentially cutting them off from the rest of Greece.
That way those islands will wither and die economically and it will be easier for Turkey tio annex them. Someone from Chios would have to go through Turkish waters to even fish somewhere west of Chios. The islands will become enclaves within a Turkish lake. A country that has no sovereign over a such huge archipelago such as the Greek islands (over 6000 of them all Greek) then it cancels itself out as a country.
Turkey has launched a campaign to “erase” Greece from the world map as a normal state. In other words, it is waging a peculiar totalitarian war against us. It wants to transform Greece into a country of limited sovereignty, a geopolitical ghost because it stands in its way to her neo-Ottoman delusions
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