Ankara Revives ‘Gray Zones’ Claims Over Greece’s Renewable Energy Plan
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While the Athenian government views Ankara's statements regarding the Special Land Use Framework for Renewable Energy Sources and the Aegean Sea as a risk of escalating tensions on the ground, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the sovereign status in the region is clear.
Ankara Revives ‘Gray Zones’ Claims Over Greece’s Renewable Energy Plan
ATHENS - Turkey has revived its longstanding claims over the status of parts of the Aegean, this time objecting to Greece’s new spatial planning framework for renewable energy projects. The latest move came from Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, one day after the Foreign Ministry had already challenged the Greek framework, which entered into force Wednesday and also covers the Aegean Sea. Turkey’s Defense Ministry said the Greek plan would …
After almost three years of relative de-escalation, a series of Turkish initiatives, in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, and Greek military partnerships awaken the discord between the two neighbours.
In the island world of the Aegean, there is a new point of dispute between the two neighbouring countries: Greece declared in July 2025 two marine protection parks in the Ionian and Aegean Seas. Turkey now followed with two own marine parks. Athens protests, the Turkish protected areas crossed Turkish territorial waters and aimed to divide the Aegean Sea.
A few hours after the official Greek announcements, the first response from Turkey to the Special Spatial Planning Framework for Renewable Energy Sources that came into force came. A challenge from Ankara, which had previously declared two marine parks in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. The post Turkey provocatively calls out Greece for the new spatial planning framework for RES appeared first on in.gr.
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