Turkey is additional escalating its provocations within the Jap Mediterranean, overtly threatening with drilling and analysis in areas the place Greece and Cyprus have potential rights.
The maps that the Turkish Protection Ministry launched fully ignore the settlement on EEZ (Unique Financial Zone) between Greece and Egypt, taking the Turkish continental shelf till Kasos, Rhodes, six miles from Pafos and embody the realm of the unlawful Turkish-Libyan memorndum.
When releasing the maps, the Turkish Ministry mentioned that “We proceed usually with the Blue Fatherland doctrine.”
In keeping with the announcement, inside the framework of gathering seismic knowledge on behalf of the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO) and of drilling actions, the actions of the vessels Oruc Reis within the Mediterranean and of Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa within the Black Sea, in addition to the drillships Kanuni and Fatih, and ship Denar-2 proceed accompanied by the forces of the Turkish Navy and Air Pressure.
The Ministry additionally introduced a map of the continental shelf on the idea of the settlement signed with the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 2011 and was launched to the UN on 2020.
listed below are the maps: