The Italian research vessel “Ievoli Relume” has completed its work in the international waters section (within the Greek EEZ) and is sailing to Heraklion (photo) for a crew change and for fuel. A Turkish frigate has remained at the site and is due to withdraw soon.

“It seems that the communication channels worked at the diplomatic level”, the government representative Pavlos Marinakis emphasized in Open, referring to the episode between Greece and Turkey, in Kasos. “They started just before 12 at 11 o’clock last night, the investigations were completed at 4 in the morning” he added.

“Greece has made it clear from the beginning that it is not even discussing its sovereign rights. It is our right to design our energy policy the way we want”, she pointed out on Wednesday morning in the Deputy Minister of Immigration Policy, Sofia Vultepsi.

On Tuesday, Ankara sent warships off its coast Cassowjust outside the Greek territorial waters, on the occasion of the investigations of the Italian ship for the laying of an underwater cable for the electricity interconnection between Crete and Cyprus.

Greece responded by deploying three navy and coast guard ships.

However, it is noted that diplomatic sources had emphasized that there has been no risk of an incident or tension between Greek and Turkish ships. “We seek dialogue, but issues of sovereign rights do not come into the dialogue,” he told SKAI 100.3 Pavlos Marinakis.

It is recalled that “Ievoli Relume” carries out surveys for which a NAVTEX of the Heraklion station of the Hydrographic Service has been issued (693/24). Turkey had also reacted by issuing its own NAVTEX (0671/24) in which it states that part of the investigations concern the area of ​​the Turkish continental shelf.

“Turkey will always find some opportunity to cause some tension, because its strategic goal is very different over time, and in my opinion this is connected to the Cyprus issue. He does it to remind us that ‘we’re here and we’re watching, don’t break even 1 mile,'” he told SKAI Grigoris Michaelidis assistant professor at the Law School of the University of Nicosia.

The role of the navy is of primary importance, he emphasized Sotiris Serbos, associate professor of International Politics. “A broader framework is needed, together with the West, for a framework of consensus, but this consensus will raise the question of whether Turkey has taken anything back from the “Blue Homeland”,” he added.