Turkey’s ‘Blue Homeland’ bill to be ready in June, sources say

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Turkey’s governing AKP enactment is preparing a measure linked to the “Blue Homeland” (Mavi Vatan) maritime doctrine to “legally unafraid Turkey’s rights and interests successful the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Aegean,” enactment sources told Turkish media.

The draught authorities is expected to beryllium submitted to Parliament aft a spiritual vacation that ends connected May 31, the aforesaid sources said.

Work has begun connected a broad legislative regularisation that “will support Turkey’s sovereign rights successful its maritime jurisdiction zones” and will find standards regarding planetary waters. As the sources said, “issues that were antecedently regulated by various laws oregon were successful a ineligible vacuum will beryllium brought together under a single measure to guarantee ineligible unity.”

Within the model of that bill, the boundaries of Turkey’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental support “will beryllium regularized done a basal law.”

This measure will so clarify “the ineligible standards that Turkey will use within its ain jurisdiction and support the maritime areas extending into planetary waters.”