Istanbul: Turkey on Wednesday summoned a Greek embassy official to the foreign ministry, a day after a man was allegedly wounded when the Greek coast guard opened fire at Turkish fishing vessels in the Aegean sea, a diplomatic source said.
Authorities in Greece said Wednesday that one of the country’s coast guard vessels fired warning shots at a Turkish fishing boat near the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said the Foreign Ministry formally protested what it described as the “disproportionate use of force” and called for an end to “interventions and harassments” against fishing boats in the Aegean Sea.
The incident occurred amid renewed tension between Greece and Turkey over a long-standing dispute over sea boundaries.
Diplomats from Greece and Turkey met in Athens earlier this week.