Tensions are mounting in the eastern Mediterranean between countries vying for the vast deposits of natural gas that have been discovered there.
The potential for military action is rising as neighbours forge new alliances and, in some cases, make old wounds worse in the regional scramble to secure energy rights for this century and beyond.
Al Jazeera’s Charlie Angela reports.
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Well you know that the nation is powerfull when they “don’t give a fuc*”
I have USD500billion in soft loans at a special 10% interest rate p.a. for 20years for Greece and Turkey only, for Trident plutonium tipped missiles, tanks, S400 heat seeking missiles, F35 fighters, B2 bombers, MQ-9 Reaper drones, light arms from Albania and Bulgaria, and special Ebola / Rabies virus cluster bombs. All virtually new at second hand prices. Hurry, offer ends in 1 week.
They will see Turks power! That’s funny, they thought they could challenge with Turkish government 😆😆😆🇦🇿❤🇹🇷💪🏻🐺
the world war will be nearer. imagine if its in my life time
Not only that my brother,when Constantinople will be conquered back by the Christians,prepare for the 2nd re Conquest of Constantinople by the Imam Mahdi as predicted by Rasullah.We are living in the end times Akhi
We will never bow down to the infidels 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
French takein sides with pusti nation Turks dont fear nothin.Turkey rules the Mediterranean.gamuti needs to shutup.
Greece is real terrorist
Islam is a terrorist organisation PERIOD..
The French should keep their noses out of this conflict. They have caused much bloodshed in the Middle East, and North Africa. Greeks and Turks should resolve their differences peacefully. Turkey has full rights to explore for resources off its coastal waters. The Turks were unwise to give away Cyprus to England (The sultan ceded the administration of Cyprus to Britain, in exchange for guarantees that Britain would use the island as a base to protect the Ottoman Empire against possible Russian aggression. The British had been offered Cyprus three times (in 1833, 1841, and 1845) before accepting it in 1878.).
@Kırmızı Güĺ 80%percent greek, you are a minority who came there 2000 years after us.
@alex alex greece want meis island. But turkey-meis between is 2km, greece-meis between is 580km. We always right this event. You enter to our sea. Your journalist saying this.
@Kırmızı Güĺ open and read a book of international law my friend and another of English. Then we can talk
@alex alex even after the 1 ww churchill said that cyprus never been greek , what are you talking about ?
@Aris Georgopoulos search those 3 islands in between france and england , they had the same problem for 3 islands nuch bigger then meis but they didnt have any right
Turkey keep saying we throw Greece in ocean… but they forget 1821 and first and second Balkan wars…Same thing Mussolini said in Second World War and then beg for help from Germany
u forgot 1453 :)))))
You come from Mongolia and are Seljuk
@Fırat Delan oh yeah like 550 years ago 😂😂😂
We need peace no more war
preach
There should be another Christian crusade against the Islamic satanist..
Why is French opportunist imperialist involved in every middleastern,african and Mediterranean issues. Macron we know you economic decline but no more opportunity for French colonialism.
Haha I’d much prefer French colonialism rather than the sultan evildogen trying to resurrect the Ottoman Empire. A empire of pillage and rape.
@Peter K who do you speak for crusader😄
@Ibrahim Somali He speaks on my behalf, saracen.
Greece is a terrorism country….
Only two words: Mavi Vatan🇹🇷❤️ 83 Mio with you Mr. President.
The Turks are not even Europeans they are nomadic arabs and should do sea oil explorations in the Arabian sea..
Turks are the father of the British
Arabs? 😂 You are an ignorant so i’ll just pass
@Murat Turan using the word “dumbfuck” doesn’t make you European!
mironas xatz dumbfuck
Ancient Greece is considered the cradle of western civilisation..Turkey is considered the brothels and sisters of ghengis Khan the father of all Turks..
Son of the devil erdogan
all we did was defend our land and our cultures but somehow turks were offended by it? you guys still support invasion and opression towards other countries for nothing in 2020? anyways….
If I was the Greek prime minister I would tell my navy to blow up that ugly ship with that disgusting Islamic crescent on show..
Great work 🇹🇷turkey we are with you, GOD is with you.
hindu name?
Wela Galibe illallah 🇦🇿🇹🇷🇺🇿🇹🇳🇹🇲🇸🇦🇶🇦🇵🇰🇲🇾🇱🇧🇲🇦🇱🇾🇯🇴🇲🇨🇰🇿🇮🇶🇪🇬🇪🇭🇩🇿
A mainland is more superior compared to an island in terms of continental shelf according to the international maritime law. Since Turkey has the longest coast line in east med. greeks claim be born dead. Plus, that greek island is smaller than a town and only 2km away from turkish mainland. Greece cannot simply claim the entire east mediterrenasn just because of that tiny island. Under international law, if parties cannot negotiate in maritime boundaries they need to take it to international courts. While Turkey proposed this, greeks declined lol.
Unless USA gets involved, those countries have no balls to have a conflict against Turkey.
Turks are love
That oil field obviously nesr greese than turkey ..
Beautiful greece, with its beautiful islands.🇬🇷🙏❤️💒✝️
🖕
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Thank you from Greece 🇬🇷❤️
Nerd0! 🙏❤️
DOĞU AKDENİZ typical comeback from a turk😂😂😂😂😂
Go Go turkey ….We pakistan stand with you…….🇹🇷🇵🇰
Support Greece from turkish aggression.
What is brain death Macron’s ships doing in the Eastern Mediterranean??? Macron is trying to cover up the domestic issues by directing the attention to a “bad guy” abroad. Typical politician.
Sam Iam you got it wrong mate ,Erdogan trying to cover up his failures both domestic ,and international , but he feed you so much bravado you can’t see clearly the “bad politician “ is Erdogan
Last island of Greece only 2 km away from turkey so turkey don’t be able to search anything. ….What a rubbish low far from justice
mediterranean sea turkey is the country with the longest land border. You cannot show the island, which is 2 kilometers away and where only 100 people live, as the Greek sea.
International law
If you want to see nasty justice you can look enosis
@Aris Georgopoulos its not , if you check the islands between france and england you can understand , they had the same problem and its about 3 islands
Oktay Isisoy you are listening to bad propaganda 🤣🤣
Turkey only search on his beaches 😂😂😂
Turkey work
Only 8.8% of Aegean sea to Turkey while 71% to Greece. Are you kidding me? The people of Pakistan stand with Turkey in its just cause. Love from Pakistan.
You can’t stop turkey it’s not iraq and Libya
SPORTS ARENA KURDS are OP they can stop 🦃
@Lil Korak nice joke but i won’t laugh
As Turks we think that Greeks miss swimming If they want this we can help with pleasure.🇹🇷🇹🇷
How does it feel to swim from Izmir to Greece? Is it tiring? did your ancestors tell you We can give you a free swimming course. 🏊😂 Many countries attacked from all directions to invade our country. They came by ships. then they lost and started swimming, they ran away. 🏊🏊🏊
Limnos 1 camel rice 0.💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷💪🇬🇷
Greece can’t feed it’s own people while they are in conflict with the world’s 8th most powerful military which military makes it’s own stuff. Yea it seems right to me
“Greece can’t feed it’s own people” lol, i bet you know nothing about Greece.
long live greece respect love and honour from india .india stands with greece
Weak country
Your kinda wrong India stand with Corona now!!
Turkish people love Indian people… Think again buddy… We are strong country…🇹🇷
@Alper Doğan ..Turks only fight with kurds ..If Turkey had a war with a western country you would lose badly.. Nobody fears Turkey your just a bunch of mongolians..
Goo on trk
Stupid Turks!
Σχέδιο λύσης
1. Καταργήστε τις προϋποθέσεις βίζας μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Τουρκίας
2. Κάντε όλα τα νησιά διαθέσιμα και στις δύο χώρες
3. Προσφέρετε συνεργασία για σεισμική έρευνα.
4. επέκταση του εμπορικού δικτύου
ξεχάστε την Ευρώπη.Βυθιστείτε στα αγαπημένα χέρια της γαλοπούλας.
Baran turkce yada imgilizce yaz
5. Παραχωρείστε ένα συνεργείο και ανταλλακτικά για το Κεμάλ ρέις γιατί έχει ανοίξει λίγο από πίσω..
Baran Wahh were did you get this ideas ? You think about it all by yourself or you are high on ice
@Mary A These are my opinions. Think of the islands where Turkish and Greek culture live together.There will be a revolution in tourism.
who gave turkey 8.8% and the greece 70+% ???🤔🤔 somethin is messed up😎
That’s because of the Greek islands near the Turkish coast. They have an exclusive economic zone too
its just greek claim in aegea n sea.
tr & gr did a deal in 2016,
according to this more than %50 of aegean sea is international waters.
format c: for cortex go and learn geography moron
I guess you that the international law we both signed it 😂
Turkey has to pay somehow for Armenia genocide
OTTOMAN EMPİRE TURKEY GERİ DÖNECEK 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷
Stay strong Greece ✊
greece wont slap from turkey.
Islamic countries are always the root cause of dispute
FYI, Turkey is not islamic country, it is a secular state with majority Muslim population. Islamic country means that country is ruled via islamic rules.
Not a fan of Erdogan, not at all, and I believe that he is doing this to re-establish his popularity which was damaged due to financial crisis. That being said, it is totally ridiculous to have this much small zone that is under control of Turkey even though the country has a very long shoreline in Mediterranean.
Stay strong Greece
its not about gas,
its all about that wet enosis dream which connects greece and cyprus from the sea.
but this connection has been cut by libya-turkey agreement.
this is why both greece and southern cyprus went crazy.
it wasnt a coincidence when so called cyprus republic did a military deal both with usa and france in contrary to founding international agreement of cyprus itself.
they are planing and up to something, and they will get their response.
even in 1970s turkish economy was in terrible condition but we claimed northern part of cyprus.
even usa ambargo didnt stop us.
We had also shut down all the usa military bases in our country back in those days.
usa just sat and watched.
good luck with that wet dream of yours, which you are trying to hide that 9km2 big small islet, but has nothing to do with both it and greek eez claim.
(and next time drink less uzo before commenting in youtube)
Erdogan good
Pay the Greeks cash. They will fold.
Turkey has big dept and a huge inflation, if anyone needs money it’s them 😉
Stop you dictator Erdogan from poisoning your country. You are close to become as North Korea. All newspapers and news controlled from him and anyone disagrees goes to prison as a terrorist. You invade Syria, you involve in Libya, for gods shake..relax and live peacefully at your country. Take a look at your economy and people lives and stop creating problems around.
Get ready for Battlefield X
If you look at the map it is obviously Turkish waters
oberredstar if you look the international low though you are violate our waters and I think international lows are far more important then what you see
@Lil Korak go read the internatioanal laws, n check other countries EEZ agreements you will see, only greece demanding for 10sq kilometer pebble 40000sqkm, no where in the world such happens
Greece vs turkey
Ey Türk ordusu, yürekten yürekten cesaretle yürü, bu Türk askerlerinin cesaretini zalimlere anlat, inşaAllah zafer senin olacak, Allah Türk ordusunun silahlarının kıymetini korusun
This is not about UN. Greece just manipulating UN laws. When we look at the France and UK maritime agreement they agreed on an EEZ according to Turkish thesis….
One million illegal immigrants can land inside Greece and search jobs, forget oil and war.
And we can send home mIllions of Turks back to the mad Sultan!
Greece;🚣♂️🚣♂️🚣♂️🚣♂️🚣♂️🚣♂️
Again greece;🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️
We shouldn’t even be looking to dig and destroy the earth in the 21st century anyway
greeks are so funny… even eu itself doesnt believe them, including grrmany, hungary, malta, spain…
Especially grrrmany lol. You’re funny
@Aris Georgopoulos cry brother. You are in all comments. You should go to your president. He can be careful yourself countey
Those countries that you mentioned have economic deals with turkey and they don’t want to lose money but form the other side when we signed a deal with Egypt and have French, Israel’s and American units arrive when turkey violated is a sign
@Lil Korak turkmusun La
@Aris Georgopoulos germany just vetoed greek investigation demand for turkish activity in east-med in council of eu mfa alongside countries i mentioned above…
follow the news,
and stop drinking much uzo.
Lets be honest, Arab world support Turkey in this conflict. Everybody else is with Greece.
Turkey no need any support we dont care their islands, we count between mainlands as england and french done without count islands between.
So what about all the islands? They are Greek territory, but the sea around them will be Turkish? In order for the Greek ships to sail from one island to another, they will have to cross foreign sea? That’s why the Aegean is split like that. And that makes absolute sense.
Greece acting really aggressive. They are burning Turkish flags. And flags are printed lol
Greece acting aggressive….??? Hahaaahaahaa my friend what drugs are you taking.
@Gee Grange Yes they do. We are pretty chill about that while Greece acting aggressive 😕
@Kars’lıyım Greece respects it’s enemies, what a few no-brain nationalists do cannot define a whole nation, as fir being aggressive is so funny i cant even comment..
Türkey ❤️
Long live the Armenians Kurds and Greeks in the region.
The Sultan is MAD!
PUHAHAHA
France is most vulnerable as ever
Greece is biggest lier in region, greece use some European countries against Turkey, but not country’s like Germany.
In 1999 when USA and Europe bomb Serbia, only country in the EU supporting Millocevic regime to kill unharmed people in Ballkan was Greece .
What France want there? French cant fight they are frogs.
But anyway diplomatically there is no more words beacose Turkey will get what they wanted.
Greece was against any kind of bombings in yugoslavia, do u remember how many innocents were killed? Better not speak about things u clearly know nothing about..
@Nick X all the world was against Milosevic regime , how Greece can be an angel pro Milosevic?
Today all Europe and western world recognized Kosovo a independent country, only Greece and greek Cypros they dont recognize Kosovo beacose they stil painful why USA bomb Serbian Milosevic regime butcher of Ballkan.
Greece is a wife of westerns ,and a girlfriend of Russia.
“Mihail Gorbachev “
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Yes I love erdugan I love Turkey 🇵🇰🇲🇾🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇶🇪🇬🇶🇦🇦🇫🇧🇩🇮🇷🇸🇦👍
I bet Putin is secretly wishing for a conflict. He hasn’t forgotten that turkey shot down a jet fighter. Just look how Russia has been acting so friendly towards Greece lately. And not the EU, nor turkey can’t win from the Russian army. Only USA and China make a chance.
greec is crazy
Greece is the part of Ottoman Empire
And then you woke up😂
funny how turks here and in other videos comment how they are going to throw Greeks to the sea. WHAT SEA??? Turks have no sea!! The Aegean is and will always be Greek!!
Talking is easy but action need little bit effort!
As an iranian ,we stay with turkish brothers ….🇮🇷🇹🇷
Unwise but fair enough
~ RESPECT ~
Americans sometimes deep fry a full Turkey in Greece, lol.
please Greece and itlay dont accept poverty from Africa-refugee is accept guns side send back Africa people
Agenda media.
Turkey live long
Greece and turkey is like Tom and jerry
YES SJAJZJAJSJAJAJAJSJAJKS
Turkey must cool heads, they don’t have higher ground in this situation
Turkey is run by bunch of morons.
Turkey is slowly slipping into religious dictatorship akin to India
Greece once you were the part of ottoman empire so what’s wrong if turkey is coming again
we stand united with our brother country turkey🇵🇰❤️🇹🇷love from Pakistan. We support turkey we support ottoman empire
Thanks Rehman. I love Pakistani. 😍
Azerbaijan – Turkey – Pakistani are islam countries. A Nation , 3 State!
This is intentional false news. There is not a UN recognized map like shown, which shows Greece owns every drop of water. That does not make any sense, there is not alike situation in the world. Imagine a country claims soverginity 500 miles away from main land and cannot defence territory, even it has not a navy ship that could operate that far away. This is all about bypassing Turkey for eastmed. If one would know little bit of history, knows that turks will not surrender without a fight.
Imagine 2 NATO nations going to war with each other
This is very bad happen for Grece
I VS GREECE
NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DİYENE!
Why greek ppl is not brave to attack to Turkey instead crying to everyone!
Turkey: -Hello Greece!
Greece: -Daddy daddy Turkey insulting me pls help!
What a wise argument👏🏻👏🏻 you have to be at least 8 years old
@Lil Korak our little one even enough to make you scary. daddy daddy pls help. But u should choose which one is your daddy. jumping everyday different arms:)
at least you can see, NATO just a condom use by capitalist and imperialist nation to please them self..
Greece should not even have that much area because of its islands.
Tibet Yıldız it does though and if you don’t agree let’s solve this diplomatically and not with our armies
@Lil Korak Turkey has the longest border to the meditarian sea but because of islands and cyprus, turkey cannot get what Turkey should has
If we want delete greece, We delete
Kırmızı Güĺ the same way you deleted KURDs 😂 you are funny
@Lil Korak we Will delete greece. We will show “what is enter to turkey’s sea area” to you.
Theres 75 million mongolians in Turkey..
@peter konto theres 10 million mongolians in Greece
Greece didn’t take support from EU. If Greece enter to our area, we can delete Greek Army. My dad is soldier in The Eastern Meditarrenion. YES, ı am turkish but I will be english, I support Turkey again
its not about gas,
its all about that wet enosis dream which connects greece and cyprus from the sea.
but this connection has been cut by libya-turkey agreement.
this is why both greece and southern cyprus went crazy.
it wasnt a coincidence when so called cyprus republic did a military deal both with usa and france in contrary to founding international agreement of cyprus itself.
they are planing and up to something, and they will get their response.
even in 1970s turkish economy was in terrible condition but we claimed northern part of cyprus.
even usa ambargo didnt stop us.
We had also shut down all the usa military bases in our country back in those days.
usa just sat and watched.
good luck with that wet dream of yours, which you are trying to hide that 9km2 big small islet, but has nothing to do with both it and greek eez claim.
(and those greek commentators shall drink less uzo next time before commenting in youtube)
Those who prepared the map at 1:17 probably want World War III. How can Greece get a share in the Eastern Mediterranean?
Greece always trusts their brothers.(usa and eu)
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10 Million Monogolians living in Greece.
EU divided by 2 as a north and south.Greeks must be aware of that they are puppet. Grece doesn’t belong to Greeks right now.Your media is giving fake news as always.What happened at the last meeting of EU ? Why didn’t they warn Turkey ? Why didn’t France and Greece couldn’t get a support from other countries ?
Support turkey
If Greece dont stop , ı will hack your Accounts
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷👍👍👍❤️❤️