Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute

Turkish analysts and media are calling for Turkey to sign an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement with the new Syrian government, following the precedent set with Libya.

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler emphasized the importance of reducing tensions in the Aegean Sea while simultaneously promoting the "Blue Homeland" doctrine, which envisages Turkish influence over vast swaths of the Eastern Mediterranean at the expense of countries in region, like Greece and Cyprus.

Only days after meeting with his Greek counterpart in Athens, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has reiterated his view that his country's dispute with Greece does not only concern maritime boundaries - specifically the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones (EEZ) - but also broader issues, including the "demilitarization" of Greek islands.

Athens is on standby to avoid unnecessary midsummer tensions as the Turkish Navy monitors the movements of the Italian ship Teliri, which is carrying out submarine fiber-optic cable laying work within the potential Greek exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

The Turkish Navy is keeping a close eye on the work of the Italian vessel Teliri, which is to lay telecommunication cables within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that will stretch to Greece and then to Italy. The vessel, which is expected to sail into a potential Greek EEZ in July, is sailing southwest of Cyprus under discreet surveillance by the Turkish Navy corvette Bartin.

This area has been unilaterally and arbitrarily declared to the UN with the well-known Turkish letters as the Turkish EEZ - Turkey yesterday issued another NAVTEX with which it stood against Cyprus

A day after Turkey's energy minister announced that Turkey will continue its research drilling in areas of its "own continental shelf" as part of the so-called Blue Homeland doctrine, which asserts Ankara's claims in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis affirmed that Greece "will exhaust all possibilities for discussion on the delimitation of an exclusi

Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Thursday that Turkey will continue its research in the areas of its "own continental shelf" in the so-called Blue Homeland, which is a doctrine expressing Ankara's claim in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey's Ministry of Education is also including the Turkey-Libyan maritime memorandum in the new educational program for school students, along with the "Blue Homeland" dogma that expresses Ankara's claims in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Cyprus' Energy Ministry announced on Thursday that it has rejected the proposal Chevron, the managing company of the "Aphrodite" natural gas field, submitted on March 29, about the optimization of the approved development and production plan of the field.