This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.
Hundreds of countries in the world have EEZs [0], but let's make it a big deal for Greece even though it currently doesn't actually exercise their rightful claim to have one. The stability of the region would not be destroyed by Greece utilizing their EEZ, but from aggressive unstabilizing countries claiming borders they don't have and having military presence in places where they shouldn't be.
> This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.
*90% of the nationalist/islamist population which consider Greece, Israel, Egypt enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Greece and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire
My objective is not to defend one side or the other. The article is lazy and shallow. When I read this:
> if Turkey pushes forward with its plans to survey for has in Greece’s exclusive economic zone.
I ask "what is this exclusive economic zone?"
The answer is
https://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=567...
The idea of extending Greek waters all the way to the shores of Anatolia is not new https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0308597X90...
This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120119043637/http://world.gree...
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1706686/middle-east
I do think, without regard to country, having 200 mile EEZs in an enclosed sea is a disaster both for nature and stability in the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea