Greek-Turkish: Turkey “Games” with Maps

With the Greek-Turkish relations go ahead particularly tense weather, Ankara made another offensive move. It unilaterally expanded Turkey’s search and rescue zone. in the Aegean, to the 25th meridian, taking another step towards its goal of permanent expansion divide the Aegean Sea in half, trapping the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean in a sea of ​​Turkish jurisdiction.

Erdogan’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoglou presented a map, in which your area of ​​responsibility Turkey for search and rescue operations it has expanded, occupying half of the Aegean. It also covers the entire area from Crete to Cyprus. Let us remember that on September 1, 2019, the President of Turkey was photographed in front of a map of the “Blue Homeland” of 462,000 square meters. km showing the Aegean divided in half.

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“Greetings to Fatih, Yavuz and Kanuni. In our Blue Homeland, we have expanded the search and rescue area in a way that will include the areas where our research ships operate. The new search and rescue plan is caloric!” said the Turkish Minister of Transport provocatively. Turkey’s attempt to create finished in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean region and broaden the agenda of the dialogue with Greece, in addition to the demarcation of the continental shelf-EEZ, provoked a reaction from Greece.

“The Turkish area of ​​search and rescue responsibility, which was arbitrarily defined by the new Turkish law, as well as that defined by the 1988 Turkish law, is illegal insofar as it covers areas of Greek sovereignty and jurisdiction, therefore It does not produce legal results. But beyond that, it is not based on operational criteria and does not serve the purposes of safety of human life. “reported Sunday morning Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

by “An unfounded statement far removed from the law and the human dimension” This is the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Hami Aksoy, on Greece’s reasonable reaction to the Turkish version of a new business map “search and rescue”, where Turkey considers that it has the right to extend into the middle of the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.

THE Ακσόι Support that “The only country with operational capacity to intervene in any incident in the region that may pose a risk to human life is Turkey. Our country’s search and rescue area has been expanded to ensure the safety of our businesses on our continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean. “Turkey, with successful maritime search and rescue activities, unlike Greece, which operates on political grounds, acts on humanitarian grounds.”

Meanwhile, the course of the Turkish research vessel further exacerbates the situation, as the Oruc Reis yesterday Sunday broke the 12 mile psychological barrier by Kastelorizo. As is known, Greece has not extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, as is an inalienable right of all coastal countries in the world. It should be noted that Turkey has 12 miles of territorial waters in both the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus also has 12 miles of territorial waters.

The Turkish ship has returned to the area beyond 12 miles and as of this writing it sails at about 17-18 miles. However, if you take into account the Turkish Navtex and the attitude of Ankara so far, Erdogan is not expected to stop there. The Oruc Reis will likely conduct surveys even half a mile outside of Greek territorial waters.

Based on statements from government officials, Greece will not react militarily to avoid such an investigation. It will only react in case of violation of the territorial waters of the six 6 nautical miles, which Ankara does not have to violate, as it claims elsewhere.

Speaking at the VII Ordinary Provincial Congress of his party in Sirnak, on the border with Iraq, Erdogan announced a tour of the 81 provinces of Turkey, while he also touched on its many different open fronts: “One by one we cancel these scenarios and their games. We have ruined them in Iraq, in Syria, in the Mediterranean, in the Black Sea, on all international platforms.” Now this country, along with its nation and its state, is moving according to your goals and not in the direction in which others are pushing you. “

Another unpleasant event took place in Cyprus. Erdogan’s chosen one, the leading candidate of the Turkish Cypriots Ersin Tatar it prevailed in the elections in the Occupied Territories. Tatar was chosen with 51.74% compared to 48.26% for Mustafa Akinci. Erdogan, who mobilized the mechanisms of the Turkish state to elect Tatar, congratulated him.

THE Not here I also congratulate you Tartar and announced that he is retiring from politics after a 45-year course. The outgoing leader of the Turkish Cypriots also referred indirectly to Ankara’s interventions during the pre-election period. The choice of the nationalist candidate, however, signals negative developments in the course of the Cyprus question, as it is expected that there will be a complete identification with the illegal options and demands of the Turkish president.

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