Turkey renews dispute over maritime zones

After the naval incident in the southeastern Aegean, where a flotilla of Turkish ships gathered near two Greek islands, Kassos and Karpathos, claiming that a research ship had violated its continental shelf, Turkey insists that it was the one that gave the ship permission to conclude its research and depart, implying that the Greek navigational warning that described the research ship's mission was invalid.

The incident, which nearly disrupted the detente between the two countries and almost turned the clock back to the period of tension that prevailed between 2018 and 2022, brought again to the fore Turkish claims against chunks of Greece's exclusive maritime zone.

In a radio interview Thursday, Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said that the so-called Turkish-Libyan memorandum, which claims that the exclusive maritime zones of the two countries are...