![]() ![]() Athens said the vessel is over the Greek continental shelf, where it has exclusive rights on potential undersea gas and oil deposits, and has sent its warships to shadow the Turkish flotilla. He said Greece would protect its sovereign rights and interests against its much bigger and more heavily armed neighbor.īoth Greece and Turkey announced military exercises on 25 August 2020 in sections of a broad area between Crete and Cyprus, where the Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis is carrying out seismic research escorted by Turkish warships. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias accused Turkey of continuing to provoke its neighbor and displaying "neo-Ottoman" ideology. We are determined to do whatever is necessary." "We don't have our eye on someone else's territory, sovereignty and interests, but we will make no concessions on that which is ours," Erdogan said, urging Greece to "avoid wrongs that will be the path to ruin., We will not compromise what is ours. Speaking at an event on Wednesday commemorating the 11th-century military victory by Seljuk Turks over the Byzantine empire at Malazgirt, Erdogan also called on Turkey's counterparts to avoid mistakes that he said would bring their destruction. ![]() ![]() Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he would make "no concessions" in the eastern Mediterranean and that Ankara is determined to do whatever is necessary to obtain its rights in the Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean. Turkey will “make no concessions on that which is ours,” Erdogan said. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Wednesday that Ankara would not accept preconditions such as suspending its gas exploration before resuming dialogue. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said after telephone talks with US President Donald Trump that Athens was “ready for a significant de-escalation-but on condition that Turkey immediately stops its provocative actions”. Turkey is also prospecting for hydrocarbons in waters where Cyprus claims exclusive economic rights. Greece, Cyprus and other regional actors have denounced the Turkish-Libyan agreement as "illegal", which Turkey denies. In 2019 Ankara reached an agreement with the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya that it says grants Turkey drilling rights across a corridor of the eastern Mediterranean - much of it within the maritime jurisdiction Greece also claims. If Southern Cyprus and Greece have their way, Turkey’s territorial claim shrinks to 41,000 square kilometers from what Ankara assesses should be 189,000 square kilometers. Turkey has the longest coastline along the eastern Mediterranean. This leaves Turkey with a tiny offshore stretch and almost nothing in the eastern Mediterranean - something unacceptable to Ankara. An EEZ is an exclusive area of a country extending 200 nautical miles from its shore. Greece is trying to enforce exclusive economic zone (EEZ) rights around its many tiny islands in the Aegean Sea. The agreement between the Turkish government and the regime in Tripoli included a Memorandum of Understanding delineating a supposed diagonal maritime boundary between the two countries, and provided for security assistance, including the right to build Turkish bases in Libya. In early December 2019 Greece sent warships to Crete after Turkey and Libya signed a controversial deal dividing the sea. The disputes over delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean are best understood as a South Cina Sea with Ottoman characteristics. ![]()
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