Greek media reports on Thursday cited “sources” at the foreign ministry
Greek media reports on Thursday cited “sources” at the foreign ministry Ankara as again expressing annoyance with a latest seaborne operation to lay a fiber optic cable between a handful of Greek islands in the central and south-central Aegean.
Official Turkey continues to cling to its revisionist and “idiosyncratic” notion that islands in the Aegean have no continent shelf or impact on delimitating any future exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Another revisionist-cum belligerent view held by Ankara over the past decades is that Greece does not have the right to extent its territorial waters in the Aegean beyond six nautical miles – an opinion that “flies in the face” of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Official Turkey’s position appears to be that the Aegean Sea, east of the 25th meridian and sans the areas where Greek islands enjoy six nautical miles of territorial waters, belongs to Turkey or comprises a future Turkish continental shelf/EEZ.
Last Saturday, in fact, a Turkish frigate, identified as the “Gediz”, reportedly hailed the vessel laying the cable, the Panamanian-flagged “Ocean Link”, calling on it to stop activities in areas of Turkish “jurisdiction”, which in this case was
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