Bangladesh, Oct. 7 -- The Eastern Mediterranean, long a stage for competing territorial claims, ideological rifts, and energy politics, is once again at the epicenter of regional tension. Turkiyes recent outreach to Libyas Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and his Tobruk-based administration has unsettled established alignments, deepened maritime disputes, and reopened old wounds between Ankara and Athens. What was once a relatively predictable rivalry has now evolved into a complex web of shifting alliances, economic ambitions, and overlapping military interests – all of which threaten to destabilize the fragile equilibrium of the Mediterranean basin.

Libyas protracted instability remains a central factor in this unfolding drama. Since...