Key facts
- Mitsotakis will raise the Turkey-Libya maritime deal at the Dublin summit, a senior Athens official said.
- Greece's foreign minister said Athens would request EU sanctions and support in the event of any escalation.
- The European Commission and Council heads called the Turkey-Libya agreement null and void in an October 20 statement.
- Turkey's foreign ministry accused Brussels of adopting what it called maximalist and illegal Greek and Cypriot positions.
- The EU's latest report on Turkey's accession progress cited Ankara's obstruction of a €1.9 billion Greece-Cyprus electricity link.
- French company Meridiam became majority shareholder of the electricity interconnection project three months ago.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will raise a Turkey-Libya maritime border agreement at an informal meeting of EU leaders in Dublin on November 13, 2026, according to a senior official in Athens who spoke on condition of anonymity. The summit was meant to focus on AI and Ukraine.
The dispute centers on a Turkey-Libya agreement that claims a corridor in the eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Cyprus, waters Athens says fall within its exclusive economic zone and where the EU has backed energy and connectivity projects. Turkey signed the agreement in 2019 with Libya's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, and it was unanimously ratified by rival authorities in eastern Libya on October 20, 2026.
The EU responded the same day. A joint statement from the heads of the European Commission and Council said the agreement "infringes upon the sovereign rights of third states, it does not comply with the Law of the Sea, and it is null and void." Egypt, Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel and the United Arab Emirates also rejected the pact, according to the report.
Turkey's foreign ministry accused Brussels of adopting what it called the "maximalist and illegal" positions of Greece and Cyprus that were "detached from reality." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a recent Cabinet meeting: "We expect them to respect the joint will of our country and Libya."