Dhaka, Aug. 28 -- A new chapter of tensions has emerged in recent days in the eastern Mediterranean basin, after Egypt and Greece signed an agreement to demarcate the exclusive economic zone of the two countries, at a time when Turkey announced its non-recognition of this agreement and insisted on continuing exploration for natural gas and oil in disputed waters in the region.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attributed to him saying: It is oil, when he wanted to analyze any international political event in the last decades of the twentieth century, and since the beginning of the twenty-first century, analysts of the newer have been saying: It is gas.

The region of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin includes Egypt, Israel, Leba...