In a report entitled “Deep sea rivals: Europe, Turkey, and new eastern Mediterranean conflict lines” and published with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Julien Barnes-Dacey, Cinzia Bianco, Hugh Lovatt and Tarek Megerisi analyse the complex interactions between Turkey and the European Union (EU) in the eastern Mediterranean. They demonstrate that the escalation of tensions in eastern Mediterranean results from competing interests between Turkey and European Union members and discuss the direct impacts such tensions have had on the Libyan crisis.Click here to read the article.
Escalating tensions in eastern Mediterranean between Turkey and Europe