“Until today we have not allowed transactions to take place in our jurisdictions without our participation, and we will not do so in the future,” said the Turkish president.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, officially announced the departure of the drilling rig “Amdulhamit Khan” from the port of Tasuku, Mersin, tomorrow, Tuesday, August 9, in order to conduct research for natural gas deposits, as he had done in the Black Sea.
“To date we have not allowed transactions to take place in our jurisdictions without our participation, and we will not do so in the future,” he said.
As SKAI’s correspondent in Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis, points out, Turkey has declared to the UN as maritime areas of responsibility a very large area in the Eastern Mediterranean that includes areas up to 6 miles from Crete, Rhodes and Karpathos, but and within the Cypriot EEZ.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the departure of the drilling vessel Abdulhamit Khan in the Eastern Mediterranean.
“Tomorrow, the ship Abdul Hamit will set sail for its first operations in the Mediterranean» said the Turkish Foreign Minister in the context of the Diplomacy Conference.
And he added that “sthe Aegean we want a stable peace and solving the problems in peaceful ways, but we see that in Greece there is no political will».
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