Veniamin Karakostanoglou: Greece practically has an EEZ, but is inexplicably silent about its rights (audio)

Veniamin Karakostanoglou, internationalist and permanent lecturer at the Law School of the University of Thessaloniki, where he teaches Public International Law, International Relations and Greek Foreign Policy.

Among other books, he has written the only scientific monograph on the EEZ of 600 pages in Greece.

Speaking to 98.4 he explains why Greece in practice has an EEZ, yet inexplicably its political system is silent on Turkey’s rights and harsh revisionist agenda.

It empties Cyprus, not caring about its strategic depth in Hellenism, even with the case of Kosovo in the Council of Europe for human rights as a state entity, while the statement of the Greek Foreign Ministry to abstain in the political recognition vote is not correct act.

Mr. Karakostanoglou considers the Athens Declaration to be a great self-trap for the country, with this being evident after the case of the Marine Parks from Nisyros to the Eastern Cyclades, where Turkey directly raises the issue of co-sovereignty in the Aegean, but also with the NOTAM between Rhodes and the Kastellorizo ​​complex, the arbitrary extension of its jurisdiction in matters of search and rescue, but also its challenges for the islands, islets and rocky islets that challenge Greek sovereignty.

He even wonders about the essence of the Greek Prime Minister’s visit to Ankara on May 13, noting that only the normalization of relations does not appear with Turkey, which is constantly expanding its revisionist agenda.