Turkey reacted angrily Tuesday to criticisms over the hydrocarbons accord it signed with Libya’s Tripoli-based government, which allows Turkish and Libyan companies to carry out joint explorations in the eastern Mediterranean.
The deal, whose details are yet undisclosed, has rekindled the dueling claims on maritime boundaries and gas and energy rights in the eastern Mediterranean, with Turkey and Libya on one side and Greece and Egypt on the other. It also adds to the long list of disputes between EU member Greece and EU candidate Turkey before the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC), which brings together the EU-27 with 14 other European states, including Turkey.
