Her maps European Union for the Aegean and the Mediterranean for us are invalid, the Turkish Foreign Ministry says in a statement, the SKAI correspondent broadcasts from Istanbul Manolis Kostidis.

It is even added that the EU is not competent to talk about the Aegean

The announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey:

“Our country closely follows them Marine Spatial Planning Studies of the European Union (EU). It issues the necessary warnings to the competent parties and takes all measures to protect our rights in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

The maps used for the Aegean and the Mediterranean in this study are invalid for Turkey and have no de facto or legal consequence.

We emphasize once again that we will not allow the project to violate the rights of our country.

On this occasion, we would like to remind you that the EU has no competence to express an opinion on maritime jurisdiction disputes between sovereign countries. The fact that the EU is involved through such initiatives makes it difficult to solve the problems.

Unilateral provisions regarding areas of maritime jurisdiction cannot be accepted. Such efforts will undermine efforts to achieve a comprehensive, just and sustainable solution to the interconnected problems of the Aegean.

A sincere and comprehensive approach must be adopted to solve the problems on the basis of international law, friendship and good neighborliness.”

In front page topic of the opposition nationalist newspaper Aydinlik it is reported that “the European Commission gave the Aegean to the Greeks. The European Commission has drawn up maps of the marine areas of the EU Member States in its framework of Marine Spatial Planning. On the maps available on the official website, Turkey is completely cut off from the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. They left Turkey without an exit from Marmaras.

On the map of Greece it appears that the territorial waters are drawn on the basis of 12 nautical miles, large sea areas are granted to the opposite islands, the middle line is determined by taking the islands as a reference point and not the mainland, the islands, islets and islets of whose sovereignty has not been transferred to Greece appear in the sovereignty of Athens, and Kastellorizo ​​is granted over 40,000 square kilometers of sea area, while treaties defining these borders were never signed.”

The issue was introduced into the public sphere by Cihat Yayci, who is known as the rapporteur of the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum, through a post on X, following relevant Greek press publications that a few days ago also referred critically to the issue of Maritime Spatial Planning of the EU by highlighting the map in question.