Greece wish there was an emergency meeting of european foreign ministers on Turkey and on its research activities of hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean, announced on Tuesday that the office of the Prime minister of greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Athens had the day before accused Ankara of "threatening peace" in the eastern Mediterranean, considering that the presence as of Monday in the maritime area of the seismic vessel research Turkish Oruç Reis was "a new serious escalation" and "showed" the "role destabilizing" of the Turkey.