Turkish president Erdogan reiterated his position that after the memorandum of understanding for maritime zones with the Tripoli government, Turkey is able to carry out seismic investigations and drilling east of Crete and south of Castellorizo.

Strategically, the landscape on the Libyan front is now odder than before, with the latest developments raising serious suspicions that the Turkish movement in cooperation with the “Tripoli government” of Saraj may have accelerated their MoU in order to prevent imminent developments in Libya, driven by the support that Russian mercenaries have given Khalifa Haftar’s forces in recent months, tightening the noose around Tripoli. This inevitably complicates Greece’s options…

After an hour and 35 minutes, the meeting between the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a meeting of leaders of NATO member states in London was over.