Libya

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels for a second day on Friday issued a statement rejecting the Turkey-Libya maritime border deal as invalid and insisting that the pact interferes with the rights of other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The...

The United Nations on Wednesday urged Greece and Turkey to maintain a dialogue after Athens called on the Security Council to condemn a recent agreement that would extend Turkey's sea boundaries in the Mediterranean. Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for...

Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas on Tuesday announced that Greece's Foreign Ministry has sent letters to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the presidency of the Security Council on Monday, in which it outlines Greece's positions on the Turkish-Libyan...

Farag el Mahdawi, the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Navy, gave an interview to Greece's ALPHA TV on Monday evening, expressing his strong views against the recent agreement between Ankara and the Tripoli-based government forces of his country. Mahdawi...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave an interview to the Turkish state-run TRT television network on Monday evening in which he announced Ankara's plans to conduct drillings in cooperation with Libya southeast of Crete. In an unprecedented statement denying Greece's sovereign...

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar described Greece's decision to expel the Libyan Ambassador over the new maritime boundary deal between Ankara and Tripoli as a demonstration of the nation's weakness. "We regard it as a sign of weakness," Akar said...

Turkey’s controversial maritime boundary delimitation agreement with the government of Libya was sent to the United Nations (UN), Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, according to a report of state-run Anadolu news agency. Erdogan said that following the...

Just a few hours after the expulsion of the Libyan Ambassador to Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis escalated the tone of Greece's verbal condemnations of the recent agreement between Turkey and the acting government of Libya. ''The texts quoted by...

The Greek government announced on Friday that it is expelling the Libyan ambassador to Athens after the Arab country failed to provide the official text of the agreement signed with Turkey on maritime borders in the eastern Mediterranean. Greek Foreign...

The Foreign Ministry of Israel expressed its support for Greece concerning the new Turkey-Libya Memorandum regarding maritime boundaries in a Wednesday post to its official Twitter account. "Israel reiterates its full support and solidarity with Greece in its maritime zones and...