Erdogan senior adviser threatened Greece not to hit Turkish vessels seeking oil and gas near Crete

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan // Photo: Reuters

Tensions between Turkey and Greece continue to intensify: Following the controversial territorial water agreement between the Erdogan administration and the Serraj administration in Libya, and when planning to turn Ayia Sofia back into the mosque - a new threat comes from Erdogan's adviser, Professor Massott Hakhi Jashin Define it as a threat in launching a war against a neighbor from western Greece.

"An attack on a state-owned ship is an attack on the state itself and when the search ship has a turkey flag it is a declaration of war," said Yeditapa University professor referring to the Athens threats that Turkish oil and gas exploration near Crete would be met with force. Professor Jashin added, "How can the Greeks attack a drill boat in international waters and in an exclusive economic zone?"

The tension between Turkey and Greece has a long history. Although Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821 and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from the Turkish side and Elephatrius and Nizelos from the Greek side, diplomatic relations were established in 1930, but between the two countries there were four wars over the years. A major reason for this is the border in the Aegean Sea, but there is also another major one and is the desire of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to divert the attention of the Turkish street from the failed Turkish state to an unprecedented level.

"I don't think it will deteriorate into a military fight. Turkey will not get too close to Crete and Rhodes," he told Israel Today. Dr. Hai Ethan Cohen Yanrujak, a modern Turkey researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and Tel Aviv University. He notes that "so far everything Turkey has done is declaratory measures and not beyond."

He said, "Professor Jashin was really based on international law, but his goal is to hide the economic damages of the Corona virus. A problem that Greece is also suffering from." Dr. Yanrojak points out that it is a two-sided interest at this point that tensions will not go to war. "I don't think it will develop into a real war," he concludes.