Returning from Albania, the Turkish President was asked to comment on the withdrawal of US support to EastMed and said that "actually this is not a project that will be realized. They did all the analysis on it, they saw that there is nothing positive. So the cost calculations don't come out. America is a capital-driven country. Since the cost doesn't come out, she withdrew her support saying 'it's not something that's going to happen'. Finally, what is it that is always being discussed here? This job cannot be done without Turkey. Because if gas is going to go to Europe from here, it will only go through Turkey," he said.
Tayyip Erdogan revealed that when his son-in-law, Berat Albairak, was still Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, his Israeli counterpart had come up with this proposal. "The thing was going somewhere. Maybe then we could close it with Israel. So is there no hope of it happening now? We can sit down and discuss the terms. Because the benefits are very important. We have reached a certain point. We have meetings with Israeli President Herzog. Israeli Prime Minister Bennett is sending messages at another level. As you know, I recently received members of the Rabbinical Alliance of Islamic Countries at the Presidential Complex and we had meetings with them. If we are going to do politics, politics is not done by fighting and arguing. We have to pursue politics on the line of peace," the Turkish President said.
Tayyip Erdogan said that "our approach in the Eastern Mediterranean is well known. We have an agreement with Libya. With the agreement we made with Libya, we put the issue in an official text. We are continuing our work on this formal text. On the one hand, we have taken delivery of four drilling vessels and two seismic survey vessels. Did we take these for no reason? These will work in the Black Sea and will work in the Mediterranean. We will have the strongest infrastructure in this respect. That is why the case of America is a purely economic analysis. As a result of these analyses, they saw that nothing would come out of it."
Source: CNA
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