Turkey will defend its rights in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Turkish President Recep Tayyab Erdogan has said that Turkey will take whatever it has in the Mediterranean as well as the Aegean and the Black Sea and will defend its rights.

According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, Recep Tayyab Erdoانan said in a speech on Wednesday on the occasion of the 949th anniversary of the battle of Manzkerat in the eastern Turkish city of Moss that Turkey has no other country's territory, sovereignty or interests. It has nothing to do with what we have, but we will not make any concessions in this regard.

Referring to the dispute with Greece over Turkey's rights to maritime territory and energy resources, Erdogan said that Turkey urges everyone to refrain from taking wrong steps that could lead to disaster. Become.

He said that even today, the incompetent people of Byzantine heritage, relying on the support of Europe, commit injustice and piracy, which shows that they have failed to learn from history.

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He made the remarks in the context of Turkey's major discovery of natural gas in the Black Sea and the ongoing dispute with Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Erdogan announced on Friday that Turkey had discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Gulf of Aden since July 20.

The ceremony that Erdogan addressed was actually held on August 26, 1071 to commemorate the victory of Sultan Alp Arslan in eastern Turkey, and after this victory the decline of the Byzantine Empire accelerated and more Turkish settlements were formed against which The path to Ottoman and modern-day Turkey was paved.

A request for mediation in the Mediterranean dispute was made during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Moss on Tuesday, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu agreed to join the negotiation process, but said Greek "illegality" and the region I also objected to increasing tensions.Turkey also protested Greece's decision to block energy exploration and called on the European Union to help.Prior to Mass's visit, Turkey and later Greece had issued conflicting warnings about military exercises in the Mediterranean.

Turkey has consistently opposed Greece's efforts to designate small islands near the Turkish coast as a special economic zone, as Turkey, which has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean, believes it is in its best interests.

Turkey has also said that energy resources near Cyprus should be fairly shared between the Turkish Petroleum Licensing Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and the Greek Cypriot administration in southern Cyprus.

Erdogan said that the only solution to the conflict lies in dialogue and negotiations and called on Greece to respect Turkey's rights.