For NATO allies operating in the Mediterranean, it was less collective defense than collective nonsense
.in a NATO mission in the Mediterranean, has laid bare tensions at the heart of the military alliance.On the morning of June 10, southwest of the island of Crete, a Greek navy frigate, the Spetsai, was on patrol as part of the EU's— an effort to enforce the U.N. arms embargo on Libya that EU officials stress is “neutral” and not aimed against any particular country.
What happened next is a matter of fierce dispute, and subject to a classified investigation at NATO's highest levels. According to the French defense ministry, which lodged an official complaint, the Turkish ships became hostile when the Courbet, acting on the orders of NATO's Allied Maritime Command, headquartered in the U.K., sought to inquire about the Cirkin's destination and payload.
The two naval incidents also have exacerbated EU fears over Turkish assertiveness in the eastern Mediterranean, where tensions were already high after Ankara Meanwhile, there is a deepening rift over Libya, where Turkey has intervened to tilt the fight in favor of the U.N.-recognized government under Fayez al-Sarraj and against his opponent, Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, whose militias are backed by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
Even NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who normally finds a way to explain away any differences among the alliance's 30 members, could not dispute the stark divide over the events of June 10.
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