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[insan]

Respect plz. Instead of insulting try pointing what is irrelevant. Insulting will not lead u anywhere. U r the most hated type of human being for me.

[Get Real!]

Respect plz. Instead of insulting try pointing what is irrelevant. Insulting will not lead u anywhere. U r the most hated type of human being for me.

I find it difficult respecting anyone who thinks a country’s population is relevant to its Continental Shelf…

[insan]

Respect plz. Instead of insulting try pointing what is irrelevant. Insulting will not lead u anywhere. U r the most hated type of human being for me.

I find it difficult respecting anyone who thinks a country’s population is relevant to its Continental Shelf…

If u find it irrelevant, u can say it in a humanely way as a human being of 21st century that u pretend u r.

[Get Real!]

Respect plz. Instead of insulting try pointing what is irrelevant. Insulting will not lead u anywhere. U r the most hated type of human being for me.

I find it difficult respecting anyone who thinks a country’s population is relevant to its Continental Shelf…

If u find it irrelevant, u can say it in a humanely way as a human being of 21st century that u pretend u r.

Do I look like the Red Cross to you or Amnesty International?

[DT.]

Respect plz. Instead of insulting try pointing what is irrelevant. Insulting will not lead u anywhere. U r the most hated type of human being for me.

I find it difficult respecting anyone who thinks a country’s population is relevant to its Continental Shelf…

If u find it irrelevant, u can say it in a humanely way as a human being of 21st century that u pretend u r.

Do I look like the Red Cross to you or Amnesty International?

More like a paralimnitis actually

You got a link on where the hell Turkey manages to claim that the Med is its own closed sea and is entitled to the entire Cypriot continental shelf? I would love to take that one apart.

[CBBB]

Isn't the continental shelf where Tescos display French food?

[Nikitas]

The law of the sea part is spot on. Typical Turkish cynicism in the application of the law. It applies it in the Black Sea and the south but claims that it cannot apply to the Aegean because it is a special case. Yes, a special case because the law just happens not to favor the Turkish version of the Megali Idea, which is basically "what is mine is mine and what is yours is also mine".

[Nikitas]

"Turkeys point ov view so we can all judge. "

Turkey's point of view is plain from its practice. In the case of its islands, like Imvros and Tenedos, it applies the law and deems that they have continental shelf as islands. In the case of other islands, like the Greek islands and Cyprus, it rejects the notion that islands have continental shelf.

In the case of delimiting the territorial sea and continental shelf in the Black Sea it treats the Black Sea as an open sea. But in the Aegean it wants to apply the principles concerning closed seas. By what perverse stretch of the imagination is the Aegean more closed than the Black Sea you can all judge.

Theoretically the Turks would deny that Britain, as an island, has any valid claims on the continental shelf of the North Sea. The Turkish position seen from this point of view reveals the ridiculous extent that Turkish diplomacy would go to rationalise its greed.

[denizaksulu]

The law of the sea part is spot on. Typical Turkish cynicism in the application of the law. It applies it in the Black Sea and the south but claims that it cannot apply to the Aegean because it is a special case. Yes, a special case because the law just happens not to favor the Turkish version of the Megali Idea, which is basically "what is mine is mine and what is yours is also mine".

I wondered where my wife got that from. Thanks Nikitas.


Seriously though, looking at the geography of the area, what would you do if you were in Turkeys boots? Matters would be different had the Allies given the islands back to the Turks; but no, plant the seeds for further conflict. That is the West for you.

[zan]

How about the TCs in all of this.....We have control of 30% no matter what you want to call it.......No one is going to give that up.....