Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended the memoranda of understanding signed between Turkey and Libya.

Through a reinforcement of the Greece-France alliance, the Greek government is responding to Tayyip Erdogan's provocations, following his latest threat that his country will cooperate with Italy on joint drilling in areas set forth in the Turkey-Libya memorandum.

Only three before the international conference on the Libyan crisis in Berlin, France harshly criticised the agreement between Turkey and Libya claiming it directly violated the interests of sovereign rights of EU member states, clearly referring to Greece.