As already extensively covered by
Greek City Times, Dendias highlighted that as a condition for Turkey to join the European Union it must acknowledge the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Turkey in recent days as expressed its desire to join the European bloc, but is at the same time one of only 15 countries in the whole world, in which many of the non-signatories are landlocked countries, to not sign and ratify UNCLOS.
Nikos Dendias with Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on April 15, 2021.
This is because it acknowledges Greek sovereign rights in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, something that only Turkey refutes.