Ankara’s new challenge, which prevented a boat from conducting investigations on behalf of Cyprus. ‘Turkey will not allow any project which violates its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean or bypasses the coordination required with the country ‘, The Turkish Ministry of Defense was investigated on Thursday according to Kathimerini.

Sources answered a question about the NAVTEX version for cables in the Eastern Mediterranean for the research vessel MV FUGRO GAUSSsailing under the flag of Gibraltar.

‘Our commitment to rights In the continental shelf, as we informed the UN on March 18, 2020, in the Eastern Mediterranean, it is constantly proven to be both on the negotiating table and in the field. ” The sources mentioned.

“According to international law, any activities such as cable/pipelines or scientific research in our continental shelf must be coordinated in advance with our country, a coastal state. According to this rule, we always carry out the necessary monitoring, preventing any unauthorized activity in our continental shelf, and do not allow activities or projects (such as the Great Connector interconnection work) that ignore our country, ”the sources added.

As part of this approach, it was found that Navwarn, published on August 5, for geophysical research by the MV Fugro Gauss, violated Turkey’s continental shelf, they said.

Following the developments, the necessary warnings were issued and anti-Navtex issued, while air and naval units were developed in the area to take appropriate measures.

“The activities of this ship are closely monitored. If they attempt to violate our continental shelf, appropriate measures will be taken on the ground, ‘ They mentioned the same sources.