"It is reported that the German government warned Greece about the Aegean islands, which it has armed and on which it deployed army personnel since the 1960s. According to the Greek press, the Merkel government is asking Greece to end its military presence on the islands. "Germany is pressuring Mitsotakis to withdraw the army from the islands," writes the Turkish daily Yeni κafak, which is affiliated with Erdogan.

Former Secretary General of Turkey's Ministry of Defense, Umit Yalim, stated that the sovereignty and ownership of the area where Greece stated how it will exercise, its territorial waters, its continental shelf and its EEZ area, belong to Turkey.

A few days after the large interdisciplinary military exercise carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ankara accuses Greece of conducting military drills in the sea area between Pserimos and Agathonisi in the SE Aegean, which it claims are illegal.