Question 24796 — foreign policy

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Mr. Meyer Habib draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the rise in Turkish-Cypriot tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the repeated violations of the Cypriot maritime domain by Turkey. At the beginning of October 2019, Turkey engaged in a new provocation by dispatching its drilling ship Yavuz to the territorial waters of the Republic of Cyprus, where in recent years gigantic gas fields. This new escalation has sparked strong international reactions. In particular, France and the European Union strongly condemned Turkey's illegal initiatives, as they had already done in July 2019. On November 11, 2019, we moved from words to action with the adoption by the Council of the European Union of a framework for sanctions against Turkey. This is a first step, the concrete effectiveness of which remains to be demonstrated. As of November 12, 2019, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs once again challenged the Europeans by announcing that it will not give up “its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean”. The MP reminds the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs that Erdogan's Turkey has been defying the European Union and pursuing an aggressive foreign policy towards several states for years of the region. In addition to the case of Cyprus, the northern part of which has been occupied since 1974, the attacks against Greece in the Aegean Sea, the support for various jihadist organizations, notably Hamas in Gaza, which regularly threatens and attacks the civilian populations of Israel (where 150,000 French people reside), or the recent deadly offensive against France's Kurdish allies in Syria are unacceptable. In this context, he questions him on the initiatives that France intends to undertake, particularly within the framework of the aforementioned sanctions, in order to effectively deter, with its European partners, Turkish intentions in the Cypriot maritime domain and translate into action the requirement for European solidarity in matters of security and defense.

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