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As tension continued on the Ankara-Athens line in the eastern Mediterranean, a sudden movement arrived from France, which was disturbed by the presence of Oruç Reis as well as Greece. announced that it would be shipped.
The 261-meter, 42,500-ton ship, named after Charles de Gaulle, one of France’s former presidents, is claimed to carry fighter jets. According to Greek media reports, it is claimed that Greece plans to buy 18 Rafale fighter jets from France, but the deal has yet to be made, and Charles de Gaulle will be accompanied by a large number of ships and submarines.
It is not known how many submarines and warships accompanied the Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of France.
French sources, who did not reveal her name, suggested that there were many weapons and ammunition on the ship. The Rafale fighter jet was said to be carried on the ship and there were anti-submarines along with radars and missiles. It was stated that electronic monitoring, targeting and intervention systems had also been incorporated.
COVID-19 EXPLOITED ON BOARD
In France, one of the countries most affected by the Corona virus epidemic in Europe, the agenda was Charles de Gaulle in April… The Corona virus epidemic broke out on the military ship and the disease that started as the flu spread to many crews.
Although the crew were thought to have the flu due to difficult weather conditions and high winds, medical teams arriving on the ship detected the corona virus in two sailors. As a result of tests carried out on other sailors on the ship, corona circus was detected in 1,046 of the 1,760 people on board.
The possibility of seafarers contracting the corona virus in a restaurant while supplying in the city of Brest is being discussed. While the majority of the ship’s sick crew were said to have been transferred to intensive care, the ship reached the port of Toulon and was cleaned.
While it was claimed that the last checks were carried out on the ship sent to the Eastern Mediterranean and there was no risk of Covid-19, the authorities issued a statement, “We have learned our lessons.”
WHAT CAUSES THE TENSION OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN?
The tension in the eastern Mediterranean actually started with the discovery of rich natural gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean in the early 2000s … The Greek Cypriot side ignored the TRNC when making Exclusive Economic Zone agreements with Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Israel.
Turkey, subject to the United Nations through the creation of a search area 13 reflects that even the Greek Cypriots in 2007 began to license oil companies. Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean has granted exploration licenses to TPA in its economic zone. But the Greek Cypriots in 13 parcels 1, 4, 5, 6, crossed with regions that allow Turkey’s TPAO, with some parts of parcel number 7.
Tension intensified in the 2010s with the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the region and many international energy companies flocking to the region … Noble companies and Exxon Mobil from the US, Italian companies ENI and the French Total continued their activities in the region with the agreements they made with the Greek side.
The size of the tensions between Turkey and Cyprus, since 2010 the discovery of rich hydrocarbon deposits in the eastern Mediterranean and increased further with the influx of large international energy companies to the region.
As tensions escalated when Exxon Mobil began searching for natural gas on the 10th parcel in the south of the island, Ankara brought its first Fatih drillship to the Mediterranean accompanied by warships and began natural gas exploration activities within the continental shelf.
THEY SENT SOLDIERS TO THE ISLAND OF MEIS
At that time, the growing tensions over the extraction of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean for many years work in the current Greece-Egypt-South Cyprus, signed last year between Turkey and Libya, raised the “Memorandum of understanding on the restriction of maritime jurisdiction “. After this agreement, which broke the plans of Greece and the Greek Cypriots for the maritime borders, the work of Oruç Reis in the region disturbed the administration of Athens.
He is against the deal signed between Libya and Turkey at every opportunity that Greece expresses, dating back to rising blood pressure suggesting that persistence violated its own economic zone. The response from Greece, Egypt and Turkey attracted last month by signing an agreement.
While Ankara insisted that Greece gained an unfair advantage in the Mediterranean because of the Greek islands and that the islands cannot be counted as continental shelves, Greece made provocative moves that would send troops to the island of Meis, let alone back off.
France, one of the countries that reacted to Oruç Reis’ exploration activities in the region, also sent frigates and fighter jets to the region last month. France and Greece exercised in the Mediterranean last month.
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