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Greece-Israel-Cyprus tripartite summit on military cooperation in the southern mediterranean

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has announced that a summit with the leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Israel is planned for the end of this year, Israeli media reports.

The meeting takes place against the background of the developing relations between Israel and Cyprus and Greece over the past decade and a half in various fields (e.g. tourism, medicine, cyber security, energy and military cooperation).

The decision to organize such a regional meeting was made during a telephone conversation on Sunday afternoon, February 26, between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President-elect of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides.

The two sides talked about bilateral cooperation in various fields.

Cypriot journalists write that Christodoulidis and Netanyahu discussed the strategic importance of relations between the two countries, as well as the prospects for further strengthening in areas such as, in particular, the economy, defense, energy and tourism.

Their leaders also talked about building an "energy highway" that would connect the national power grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece.

 

The giant EU-backed project comes at a time when sanctions against Russia are fueling a global energy crisis that has hit the EU hard and exposed Europe's energy dependency.

The creation of an electric cable line appears to have replaced a separate natural gas pipeline project that would connect the three countries to Europe via Greece.

The EuroAsia Interconnector will connect the national electricity grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece (Crete) to the European electricity grid, ending Cyprus' energy isolation.

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The overwhelming need to enforce the neo-Ottoman plan in the Eastern Mediterranean is through the blocking of the signed electricity transfer plans from Israel and Egypt to Cyprus and Greece.

This is not a finding, but a logical explanation of the Turkish lionization in the region against the backdrop of the illegal "Blue Homeland".

"Turkey should declare casus belli on the EuroAsia Interconnector project and inform the EU that it will drag the entire region into a protracted war if it insists on the unilateral delimitation of the Greek EEZ that violates the Turkish EEZ," a Turkish defense source had said before months.

This is a natural development of all of Ankara's threats in our maritime area, which obeys the threat of the Turks that "nothing is going to be done in the Southern Mediterranean without Turkey's consent".

If the Turks do not interfere in any way in the electricity transfer agreements recently signed by Israel and Egypt with Greece and Cyprus, then they will also lose out on the East Med pipeline project, which literally "burns" them, since it cancels the " Blue Homeland" in practice.

How would the Turkish side attempt to do this?

Firstly, with the declaration of casus belli on the EuroAsia Interconnector project, with the aim of stopping the work.

Secondly, by transferring a permanent naval force to the disputed areas, expecting to be provoked by the countries participating in the electricity transmission projects, blocking the participation of both S. Arabia and the UAE.

This is precisely why the Tripartite Summit will be convened, in which it will probably be decided to create a joint aeronautical force to guard the energy plans.

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