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It is now clear, even at a glance, what Tayyip Erdogan has established with successive Navtexs since August and their investigation. Oruc Reis in the maritime zone between Rhodes and Kastelorizo.
The diagram shows Navtex, according to which TurkishSince August 10, he has been conducting seismic studies with Oruc Reis and his auxiliary ships Ataman and Cengiz Han, escorted by Turkish warships. After initially moving in a horizontal pattern from south to north (that is, starting from the sea area near Egypt), they now continue to move vertically.
Until midnight on Wednesday they carried out research work in the area that is represented in red and from today Oruc Reis “traces” the area that is painted dark blue or black. The Turkish research ship will move in this area until midnight on November 23, conducting two-dimensional seismic studies.
For this phase of Oruc Reis’s work, in fact, the Turks have asked not to approach any ship closer than a six-nautical-mile zone, indirectly warning the Greek side.
What else does the capture of all the Navtex reveal showing the areas in which the Oruc Reis has been moving from August 10 to today? It is obvious that Ankara wants to “drown” Kastelorizo in an area of the Turkish continental shelf and the EEZ. What this area is is obvious, just by looking at the Oruc Reis research areas.
The illegal Turkish Navtex under which the Oruc Reis has been operating since midnight on Wednesday is only 12 nautical miles from the island of Rhodes and 18 nautical miles from the island of Ro, in the Kastelorizo complex.
What are the Turks doing?
– Cut Kastelorizo from the trunk of the other Aegean islands.
– Catch the Megisti archipelago in an area of the Turkish continental shelf.
– Acquire usufruct rights through the successful creation, despite the fact that the sovereign rights of a state, in this case Greece, in its Exclusive Economic Zone arise ipso facto and ab initio, that is, they are inalienable, even if another state performs a I work trying to falsify international law.
– Prepare things for the next phase of the crisis, which could be signaled by sending a floating drilling rig, which they will try to justify by claiming that there are many promising hydrocarbon deposits in the area.
The moment chosen by the Erdogan regime for the announcement of the new Navtex can only be considered accidental. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is in Athens, sealing his country’s strategic partnership with Greece. Ankara sends the message that it will not back down easily, claiming in the field everything it believes belongs to it.
“Babesia” or a State Department mistake?
At the same time, the publication of the State Department’s legal position on Greek airspace and the extent of Greek territorial waters in the Aegean appears to be pouring water into Turkey’s mill.
The US State Department notes that airspace is the supernatural of territorial waters and therefore does not recognize 10 nautical mile Greek airspace, reiterating the view of the supposed Greek paradox (Greek perception) when the current range of territorial waters is 6 nautical miles. .
As widely known as this American position was, the recurring time period raises concerns. This is not only because the legal services of the State Department do not recognize as violations of Greek airspace the flights of Turkish fighter jets between 10 and 6 nautical miles from the coasts of the islands.
The legal services of the US State Department appear to question the existence of maritime borders between Greece and Turkey in areas where the distance between a Greek island and the coasts of Asia Minor is less than 12 nautical miles. According to the State Department report, “although Greece claims up to 6 nautical miles in the Aegean, the country and its neighbors have not agreed on border demarcation in those areas that overlap with their legal maritime rights.”
He added: “The absence of such a demarcation means that there is no clear picture regarding the area of Greek territorial waters and the corresponding airspace in these areas, which makes any assessment of the violations impossible.” Last March’s State Department report also states: “The United States urges Greece and Turkey to resolve outstanding bilateral maritime border issues peacefully and in accordance with international law.” .
The wrong approach from the American side comes at a fluid time, not only because of the change in American leadership, but also because of the increasing aggression of the Erdogan regime, which openly defies international treaty definitions, seeking to turn gray areas into maritime areas.
The legal services that wrote the report seem to have forgotten the Italo-Turkish Agreement of 1932 for the concession of the Dodecanese to Italy, but also the firm Greek position that where the distance between the Greek coast and Turkey is less than 12 nautical miles, it is apply the median line rule. .
The response of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In response to the report of the US Department of State, which was referred to the US Congress under the provisions of the “Eastern Mediterranean Energy and Security Partnership Act” and which was sent to Congress ago about 8 months (March 18, 2020), diplomatic sources from The Greek Foreign Ministry note that the borders of Greek territorial waters, as well as the maritime borders between Greece and Turkey have been clearly defined for years on the basis of law international conventional and customary and are not disputed.
Specifically, the Greek Foreign Ministry underlines: “With regard to the Southeast Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, the maritime borders have been defined by the Italy-Turkey agreement signed in Ankara on January 4, 1932, as well as the which are an integral part of that agreement and was signed in Ankara on December 28, 1932. Greece, as a successor state, under the 1947 Treaty of Paris, gained sovereignty over the Dodecanese without any change in the maritime borders, as agreed between Italy and Turkey.
As for the maritime borders in Thrace (up to the point at a distance of three nautical miles from the Evros delta), they were defined by the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 and the Protocol of Athens of 1926.
Finally, with regard to the maritime borders between the two mentioned areas (from Thrace to the Dodecanese), where the territorial waters of Greece and Turkey intersect, the maritime borders follow the median line between the Greek islands and islets and the opposite Turkish coasts.
“The external borders of Greece, including its territorial waters, which have been repeatedly captured, are also the external borders of the European Union.”
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