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Turkey Reveals Marine Park Plans, Escalating Dispute with Greece
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Turkey Reveals Marine Park Plans, Escalating Dispute with Greece
Photo of Kastelorizo, a Greek island for which Turkey does not acknowledge Greek maritime waters. Credit: Chris Vlachos Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Turkey announced on Saturday its plans to establish its own marine protection initiatives in the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, a move that follows Greece’s recent declaration of two national marine parks in the region. This development is expected to raise diplomatic tensio…
The marine park in the Aegean extends outside territorial waters, between Samothrace and Lemnos – In the Eastern Mediterranean, it begins northeast of Rhodes and reaches the Gulf of Antalya.
"The Turkish announcement of two marine parks in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, outside Turkish territorial waters, with the first extending between Samothrace and Lemnos and the second excluding Kastelorizo, constitutes yet another illegal Turkish action which flagrantly violates the Law of the Sea and EU Law on maritime spatial planning and constitutes yet another reflection of Ankara's revisionist narratives," SYRIZA-PS stressed in…
Turkey’s Marine Parks Draw Objection from Greece Amid Ongoing Maritime Dispute
Tensions between Greece and Turkey have resurfaced following Ankara’s announcement of two new marine protected areas in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. The Turkish initiative, submitted to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, comes shortly after Greece declared its own marine parks in the Ionian and southern Aegean Seas. The Turkish marine spatial planning map, developed by Ankara University’s National Research Center for M…
Turkey continues its efforts to protect its sovereign rights and wildlife in the surrounding seas. Most recently, the coast off Gökçeada in the Northern Aegean Sea and the coasts of Fethiye-Kaş and Finike in the Mediterranean Sea were declared "marine protected areas." These areas were officially incorporated into Turkey's marine spatial planning map. Greece's Unilateral Decision Reacts This development is being considered a response to the two…
A plan for marine parks in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, excluding Kastelorizo from the territorial waters of 6 nautical miles, was issued by Turkey a few days after Athens' announcements. The Foreign Ministry called it an "unacceptable, unilateral and illegal action." Turkey is further challenging Greek sovereign rights by delimiting two marine parks in the Northern Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, as the parks extend outside terri…
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