For some time, Israel has stepped up its unilateral actions not only in the territorial domains of the Levant region but also within its maritime zones, increasingly aligning its policies with the Greece-Greek Cypriot administration axis in the Eastern Mediterranean. As evidenced by the recent 10th Greek-Greek Cypriot-Israeli trilateral summit held in Tel Aviv, this apparent anti-Tรผrkiye axis has strengthened its ties, which were initially established in cultural and economic domains. Both the structure of the partnership and the leadersโ speeches indicate that containing Tรผrkiyeโs increasing dynamism across multiple fields in the region plays a central role. In particular, the alliance is largely grounded in isolating Tรผrkiyeโs energy, maritime and political actorhood in the Mediterranean region, as the parties involved seek to dominate regional hydrocarbon reserves and control potential pipeline routes. These developments directly translate into political leverage.
In this model of alignment, Tรผrkiyeโs emerging centrality in Syria and its potentially transformative impact over the Levant region seemed to have urged this anti-Tรผrkiye axis in the East Mediterranean to pressure fragmented states, like Lebanon, into bandwagoning their agenda.
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