This is like trying to go Manhattan from NJ without entering NY. I mean... it's impossible.
(Greek nationals doesn't seem to like this comment)
[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03526/Turkey_...
Turkey has not yet withdrawn from what is legally Cypriot territory on the north of the island. That would be the bare minimum of cooperation required.
(No connection to Greece myself)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement/briefings/1a2_en....
It's all a bit of a clusterfuck, I'm not even entirely clear on what areas Turkey claims and what areas Greece claims. Turkey also refuses to go to the ICJ to resolve this, which would have been a good solution, in my opinion.
I mean, the dispute between Turkey and Greece mostly is about the islands that are literally 5 to 10kms away from Turkish mainland and Greece trying to claim the whole Aegan See for themselves, citing the islands are her waters and there a LOT of islands, enough to cover Aegean See and isolating Turkey’s west shores. It causes a dispute, since if Greece would have their way, Turkey would not even be able to use her west shores.
Greece invading west Turkey in WW1 does not help either.
The conflicts are really feels like children arguing with each other. Both parties needs to stop, but I think both governments/ruling parties enjoy nationalist votes from fueling this dispute. Other countries, who have interest in this dispute, does not help either.
It would give the both access to undersea hydrocarbon deposits, and Israel was going to support route changes of pipelines to pass more through Turkey.
I suspect this project and goal is somehow intertwined, but I'm not versed enough with international relations to see the big picture.
The video you talk about is probably talking about a proposal that Turkey made to Israel which runs counter to every international maritime law (it was promptly rejected by israel) . AFAIK they made similar proposals to egypt
reality is turks are often... detach from reality politically. such is life in 2nd world countries like lebanon, turkey, malaya, indonesia etc
Yes, they also seem to have bribed foreignpolicy.com [1] to slander the peace-keeping efforts of Turkey in the region.
[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/08/turkey-military-overstr...
The point is that as long as Turkey is opportunistically involved in every military conflict they believe they can get gains from, they can't be seen as a trusted partner by their neighboring countries.
But, you find all those countries that I listed above, “trustworthy”, is that correct?
The problem here is, “trustworthy” does not mean anything in international relations. It is all about having the outcomes you want, one way or another. If peace gets you what you want, its great. If war, then you go to war.
That is why European Union removed the borders, unified the economic area, so that they will be too integrated/extremely hard to decouple to have war again, because treaties or trustworthiness is meaningless in scale of countries.