Greece expels Libyan ambassador over maritime deal with Turkey

Greece on Friday expelled its Libyan ambassador over a maritime deal Tripoli signed with Turkey.

During a news briefing, Athens' Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said Mohamed Younis AB Menfi had 72 hours to leave the country.

Libya and Turkey signed an agreement on boundaries in the Mediterranean last week that could complicate Ankara's disputes over offshore energy exploration in the Mediterranean with nations including Greece.

Greece and Turkey are at odds over various decades-old issues ranging from mineral rights in the Aegean Sea to ethnically-split Cyprus. The deal with Libya angered Greece, which sees the move as infringing its own sovereign rights.