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Erdogan’s regime ignites peace by pushing search and rescue zone: Aegean and eastern Mediterranean want ‘dead zone’
The Erdogan regime is constantly opening the door to claims in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean, apparently claiming rights to the air and sea.
The “Sultan”, watching Trump’s German Europe and America whistle indifferently at his dangerous challenges, takes relations with Greece to the extreme, endangering peace in the eastern Mediterranean.
At the center of this effort are Erdogan’s “hares”, the Turkish media, which with false and non-existent publications and a propaganda orgy, throw “oil on the fire” of tension.
According to Doğu Akdeniz Politik, the Erdogan regime, in the context of the “Blue Homeland” increases the area where you have search and rescue rights from Karpathos to Cyprus, ignoring everyone.
This is a unilateral, arbitrary and illegal action. An extremely dangerous challenge, with the Turks intensely “flirting” with the war. What do we mean? After the Erdogan regime failed to lead the Greek Armed Forces to “recklessness”, always receiving cold and dynamic responses, it “invests” in the conflict through the Search and Rescue sector. As happened in Halki in August, when the Turks challenged Greek sovereignty and harassed the Greek helicopter that rushed to pick up the migrants.
What are the Turks looking for? Putting the whole Aegean in a state of controversy even west of the 25th meridian. That is, turning half of the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean into a “dead zone”, increasing their claims both for the status of the Greek islands and for the rights they supposedly have in the airspace and the sea. In other words, the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean should become a large “gray” region where Greece and Turkey will have equal rights and, in fact, the Greek outlying islands will be demilitarized without defensive shields.
What applies
Turkey calls for increased involvement in the sensitive search and rescue (SAR) sector, demanding control of airspace and the Aegean Sea to the 25th meridian, which divides the Aegean from the banks of the Nestos River, west of Xanthi, passes west of Lemnos, passes a short distance from the Kafireas (Evia) Strait, crosses Tinos, and ends west at Heraklion, Crete.
Search and rescue in the event of maritime accidents is regulated by the “International (Hamburg) Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue of 1979 – International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue”, which Greece ratified with Law 1844/1989.
Greece coordinates search and rescue operations within the Athens FIR, since it was created in the 1950s. The assumption of search and rescue responsibilities within the Athens FIR, beyond the humanitarian dimension, it reflects the geographic reality of the region, given the Greek islands scattered in the Aegean, allowing the provision of more immediate, rapid and efficient services for the protection of human life at sea.
On April 7, 1989, ICAO confirmed that the areas of responsibility of Greece and Turkey for aeronautical search and rescue remain unchanged, as defined and agreed within the Agency. In addition, a recent amendment to ICAO Search and Rescue Annex 12 maintains the principle of defining areas of responsibility, which Indirectly confirms Greek responsibility for aeronautical search and rescue throughout the Athens FIR.
However, Turkish ships do not recognize Greek SAR companies at sea. Thus, in the event of an accident, not only do they not ask the Greek authorities for help, but they sabotage the rescue operation, risking their lives, and then accuse Greece of unreliability and poor performance of the Search and Rescue project.
Turkey asked the IMO in 1980 to approve half of the Aegean as an Ankara Search and Rescue Area, and also called for the creation of 11 naval firing ranges. The Turkish request was rejected.
However, Ankara returned with more strength and suddenly, in 2001, the Turkish National Assembly passed Turkish law 24611 / 12-12-2001, according to which it unilaterally defines the half of the Aegean and the northern part of the FIR of Nicosia as the Ankara area for maritime research and rescue. Unfortunately, the IMO, without any reaction from Athens at the time, included the Turkish law in its international manual on maritime search and rescue.
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