ANKARA (Dispatches) -- Turkey on Saturday declared the EU’s Maritime Spatial Planning maps of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to be “null and void” with “no legal effect”.
“We will not allow the violation of Turkiye’s rights with this planning,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The EU has no authority to comment on maritime disputes between sovereign states. Turkeu has repeatedly stressed that its issues with Greece, its Aegean neighbor, should be handled between the two countries, not through the EU or any third countries.