ANKARA - Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit arrived this morning in MFA to meet FM Abdullah Gul.
Gen. Buyukanit said, "we have ships patrolling eastern Mediterranean and Aegean. We are acting jointly with Foreign Ministry. Thus, we don`t need to send new ships there," in response to reporters who recalled him news reports claiming that Turkey sent battleships to eastern Mediterranean to demonstrate its resoluteness against Greek Cypriot administration`s initiatives to prospect oil in the seas around Cyprus island.
Gen. Buyukanit will also be received by Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer in the afternoon.