Commenting on Haftar's stance, he said, "It is important that he had not signed the texts by the time we left the conference. Everything is in the words and must be secured by signatures in order to have a positive result. There are many expectations from us because we are a strong state. "

Erdogan also hinted that Italy had approached him and had shown interest in co-operating in drilling in the areas included in the memorandum with Libya.

Finally, Erdogan said that Turkey has not yet sent an army to Libya, only military advisers.

Responding to the challenges of Turkish President Erdogan, who threatened to send a research vessel south of Kastellorizo, the prime minister said that "if Greece does so, it will do what it has to do".

He added, however, that he does not believe that things will reach this point.

"The issue is not what we are going to do in a hot episode, the issue is not to get there. Greece has strong and proven alliances and I am not referring only to the US. Thank you Mr Macron for being the warmest supporter of Greece. Greece has very strong allies in the region, I put Israel but also Egypt. I do not think we will get to the point of managing tension in the Aegean. But if we do manage to manage it, "Mitsotakis said.