He estimated that the Turkish president is currently controlling the reflexes of Greece, Europe and the West as a whole, and added that his announcement to enter Syria shows that he is “looking somewhere for an easy victory, a victory of impressions”.
The process that Ankara is starting today, taking the Abdulhamid Khan drilling rig into the Eastern Mediterranean, will last “many months”, estimates the Angelos Syrigos Professor of International Law and Deputy Minister of Education.
Speaking on SKAI TV and the program “Morning Update”, he added that Turkey has not determined where the drilling vessel will be sent because “it is obviously playing with our nerves”. In any case, he explained, Turkey claims a part of the Eastern Mediterranean from Cyprus to Crete, and after staying for two months in one place, Abdulhamid Khan can then proceed to another, depending on the reactions that will exist.
“Erdogan considers the area south of Rhodes, south of Karpathos, south of Crete, south of Cyprus or west of Cyprus to be under Turkish jurisdiction. We are talking about areas under the jurisdiction of either Greece or the Republic of Cyprus. That is, it can move within areas of Turkish jurisdiction, those that are close to the Turkish coasts, but anything that is close to the Greek coasts, the Cypriot coasts, ceases to be an area of ​​Turkish jurisdiction. However, Erdogan considers all these areas to belong to him based on a document he sent to the UN and announced in March 2021 that he essentially owns the entire area from Crete to Cyprus, leaving the islands only 6 miles of territorial waters, nothing other”, explained the professor of International Law.
He estimated that the Turkish president is currently controlling the reflexes of Greece, Europe and the West as a whole, and added that his announcement to enter Syria shows that he is “looking somewhere for an easy victory, a victory of impressions”.
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