Turkish survey ship sails near Lesvos

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A Turkish probe vessel near the Aegean larboard of Izmir precocious connected Friday and was sailing northbound of the Greek land of Lesvos adjacent the Turkish seashore connected Saturday, tracking information from marinetraffic.com showed.

Turkey issued a navigational telex (Navtex) connected Thursday, saying the Piri Reis would transportation retired surveys successful the cardinal Aegean, west of Chios and Lesvos, from October 4 to 14.

Greece responded with a counter-Navtex from its Lemnos station, saying portion of the probe is “unauthorized” arsenic it lies connected the Greek continental shelf. It added the Lemnos station is the lone competent authorization to broadcast Navtex messages successful the Greek work area.