Ankara plans Aegean research in Turkish waters

Athens is waiting to see how the Turkish Petroleum Research Organization (TPAO) research vessels will move in the northeastern Aegean Sea, within Turkish territorial waters.

The Turkish government's gazette published the coordinates for nine locations north and south of Imvros in the eastern Aegean, at various points in the Gulf of Saros, as well as an area in the Aegean Sea a few kilometers east of the Evros estuary that has been reserved.

The General Directorate of Mines and Petroleum Products at the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources said the area has been reserved for oil exploration.

All these developments do not, however, constitute a condition capable of undermining the calm on the ground, which is the declared will of Athens and Ankara.

Nonetheless, after many months of complete inactivity, Ankara is raising the issue of exploration in the...