The reaction of Turkey after the rather surprising mid-Week announcement by the Greek government on maritime spatial planning came as a surprise to Athens. Both the neighbor’s reference to Greece‘s unilateral actions and the announcement of the submission of the corresponding Turkish map to international organizations such as UNESCO and the UN, had already been discussed behind the closed doors of the Kysea, which met yesterday under the prime minister at the Maximos Mansion.

The meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with Tayyip Erdogan in New York confirmed the mutual will and effort to move the relations of the two countries into a new phase without the tension of the past.

"We obviously have significant differences, but we can agree that based on good neighborly relations and respect for international law, we will draw up a road map so that we can resolve our geopolitical difference which is none other than the delimitation of maritime zones, i.e. EEZ and continental shelf, in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean", said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis while attending the NATO Summit in Vilnius.