German newspaper Die Welt, in its article entitled Dispute with Turkey: Battle in the Mediterranean, focused on the role of France in the East Mediterranean region and writes: "France has only one goal, President Macron's advisers say: to clear up the extremely complicated relations in the region."
"They argue about yesterday's issues like the Armenian genocide and whether this designation is even allowed. People are curious about things like the role of Turkey in civil wars in Libya and Syria. It has not been forgotten that the Turks used the American march in October 2019 to launch a military offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria. And the fact that they are now igniting in the eastern Mediterranean, on the doorstep of the European Union, is, to put it casually, on the nerves of the French," Die Welt wrote.
The German publication makes a clear mistake though - the French-Turkish hostility did not ignite "on the doorstep of the European Union," but blew up within the European Union as it was Turkish ships that violated Greece's maritime space.
Of course we have expected the Turks to receive support from their German allies, which is exactly why the German newspaper would describe the events within Greece's sovereignty, a European Union member, as on the doorstep to give a question of dispute over who has sovereignty over the maritime space.
For the German newspaper, Turkey's hostilities against Greece and its allies, especially France, is "less about gas" because "deposits are below the seabed, [where] there are no pipelines for transportation and commercial exploitation may not be profitable at all."
"It's more about who has the mandate in the eastern Mediterranean - and how one reacts to Erdogan's neo-Ottoman ambitions," claimed Die Welt, adding that "gas reserves are the fuel for this conflict. "And nationalism is the match."
