{"id":44064,"date":"2020-10-13T07:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44064"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T07:24:54","slug":"uae-and-israel-leaders-hold-post-accord-phone-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44064","title":{"rendered":"UAE and Israel leaders hold post-accord phone talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nANKARA: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was condemned as a \u201cdisruptor of peace and stability\u201d on Monday after he redeployed a survey vessel to search for oil in Greek territorial waters.<br \/>The Turkish president now risks sanctions from the EU, which condemned his \u201cnegative behavior.\u201d<br \/>The redeployment of the survey vessel Oruc Reis protected by armed Turkish naval ships has added fuel to a bitter dispute between Turkey and Greece over exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean.<br \/>Ankara had withdrawn the vessel from Greek waters last month to \u201callow for diplomacy\u201d before an EU summit at which Turkey was threatened with sanctions if it continued operations in the region.<br \/>\u201cTurkey has proved it lacks credibility. All those who believed Turkey meant all it said before the European summit of Oct. 1-2 now stand corrected,\u201d Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday.<br \/>\u201cSo the only issue here is to activate more drastic solutions, for Turkey to feel more stick and less carrot this time.\u201d<br \/>The French Foreign Ministry said Turkey must stick to commitments, refrain from provocative actions and show good faith.<br \/>Greece\u2019s Foreign Ministry described the new voyage as a \u201cmajor escalation\u201d and a \u201cdirect threat to peace in the region.\u201d<br \/>Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said: \u201cTurkey is acting as the disruptor of peace and stability in the region. That is against international law.\u201d<br \/>EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell said the bloc would discuss Turkey\u2019s behavior this week. The new deployment \u201cwill lead to new tensions instead of contributing to deescalation efforts we were calling for at the last European Council,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cWe consider that Turkey needs to engage actively in finding solutions and not to engage in negative behavior.\u201d<br \/>Seth J. Frantzman, executive director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis, said Turkey used the exploration vessel deployments to harass Greece and create crises. The aim was to feed its citizens nationalist propaganda and to distract from a rapidly declining currency and failures in other regions, he said.<br \/>\u201cAnkara has been doing this since June, always to challenge Greece under the guise of research, but actually to conduct naval drills,\u201d he told Arab News.<br \/>\u201cGreece could respond by doing the same around northern Cyprus, forcing Ankara to focus its attention elsewhere. Appeasing Ankara\u2019s strategy has not worked and leaves Athens at the mercy every month of a new Ankara-created crisis.\u201d<br \/>Efe Caman, an expert from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, said:\u00a0\u201cTurkey continues with its expansionism in the eastern Mediterranean. Ankara doesn\u2019t care about international law and doesn\u2019t respect Greek sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was condemned as a \u201cdisruptor of peace and stability\u201d on Monday after he redeployed a survey vessel to search for oil in Greek territorial waters.The Turkish president now risks sanctions from the EU, which condemned his \u201cnegative behavior.\u201dThe redeployment of the survey vessel Oruc Reis protected by armed Turkish naval ships&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}