The Turkish oceanographic vessel Piri Reis departed from the larboard of Smyrna (Izmir) connected Friday nighttime (October 3), arsenic portion of the “scientific research” announced by Ankara done a NAVTEX.
Specifically, Turkey’s NAVTEX for Piri Reis is successful effect from October 4 to 14, covering a ample area, adjacent successful the cardinal Aegean, afloat encompassing the imaginable Greek continental shelf arsenic good arsenic the Greek NAVTEX work area.
The country covered by this latest Turkish NAVTEX extends from Thasos to Chios, Agios Efstratios, Mykonos, Ikaria, and Fournoi.
The probe volition instrumentality spot successful Turkish territorial waters and planetary waters, but besides successful areas of imaginable Greek continental shelf.
Greece’s absorption was immediate: Athens issued its ain NAVTEX, valid until October 25, reminding that the Turkish NAVTEX illegally includes areas wrong the Greek continental support and Greece’s NAVTEX work zone.
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