Ankara reverted to 'gunboat diplomacy' in an effort to prevent an Italian vessel from conducting research off Kasos - in its imaginary and illegal EEZ
The joint exercise took place over a maritime region 'marked off' in the revisionist and unrecognized “Turo-Libyan” agreement
The Greek government, along with Egypt and the EU, expressed outrage at the time over the agreement
If the announcement materializes, it would be the first direct back-tracking by the Erdogan administration amid a recent rapprochement between Greece and Turkey