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[Lit]

TPAO to explore oil off Turkish waters in Mediterranean

The government has given the go-ahead to the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to explore for oil in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea for one year.

Ankara's move in the eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Cyprus, is likely to stir up the waters...........

full article:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news- ... anean.html

[boomerang]

TPAO to explore oil off Turkish waters in Mediterranean

The government has given the go-ahead to the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to explore for oil in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea for one year.

Ankara's move in the eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Cyprus, is likely to stir up the waters...........

full article:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news- ... anean.html

hmm...international waters when it suits them, and not when it doesn't...

I don't see any tcs here moaning this move is counterproductive during the talks...even talat is quite on this...

it just proves what's mine is mine and what is yours is mine aswell...fucking hell...

[shahmaran]

It is the way of the bully Boomerang, the whole world works in such a way, get with it dude

[YFred]

TPAO to explore oil off Turkish waters in Mediterranean

The government has given the go-ahead to the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to explore for oil in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea for one year.

Ankara's move in the eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Cyprus, is likely to stir up the waters...........

full article:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news- ... anean.html

hmm...international waters when it suits them, and not when it doesn't...

I don't see any tcs here moaning this move is counterproductive during the talks...even talat is quite on this...

it just proves what's mine is mine and what is yours is mine aswell...fucking hell...

You are just too simple. The phrase is " Whats mine is mine and whats yours is ours"
Get it right for once in your life, not that it applies to oil in the Med.

[boomerang]

It is the way of the bully Boomerang, the whole world works in such a way, get with it dude

fair enough...drop the rhetoric when we issue licences then...can't have it both ways...

actually this is good, keep it up...it forwards our cause...somebody in turkey is born with shit for brains, after moaning and groaning how unfair our deal was...then they pull a stunt like this...

[shahmaran]

It is the way of the bully Boomerang, the whole world works in such a way, get with it dude

fair enough...drop the rhetoric when we issue licences then...can't have it both ways...

actually this is good, keep it up...it forwards our cause...somebody in turkey is born with shit for brains, after moaning and groaning how unfair our deal was...then they pull a stunt like this...

I do not think this is a fair world and I cannot blame anyone who has to go out of the laws way in order to survive, as long as you make it look pretty you are good

[Lit]

TPAO was given permission from the Turkish Council of Ministers to explore oil in the Mediterranean Sea outside the territorial waters of Turkey
Under the title Retaliation to the Greek Cypriots in the Mediterranean, Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi newspaper (17.07.09) reports that the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) will carry out geological explorations in an area of 980 thousand 875 hectares in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea and an oil operation in an area of one million 237 thousand and 948 hectares. The decisions of the Council of Ministers on this issue have been published in the Official Gazette. According to these decisions, TPAO was given permission for carrying out explorations for one year in the Mugla and Antalya Oil Areas.

Moreover, Ankara Anatolia news agency (16.07.09) reported the following from Ankara: The Turkish petroleum corporation will explore oil in some regions of the Mediterranean Sea, outside the Turkish territorial waters.

The Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) will also explore oil in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, particularly in international waters around the Aegean province of Mugla and the southern province of Antalya for one year.

The cabinet decree, that allowed TPAO to explore oil in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, took effect after it was published in Thursday's Official Gazette.

TPAO was founded in 1954 with the responsibility of being involved in hydrocarbon exploration, drilling, production, refinery and marketing business as Turkey's sole national company.

Until 1983, as an integrated oil company, it was engaged in all the activity fields of oil industry from exploration to production, from production to refinery, from refinery to marketing and transportation. Today, TPAO is national oil company involved merely in upstream (exploration, drilling & production) sector.

To ensure the energy security supply of the country, TPAO conducts its international activities especially in the Caspian Region, North Africa and the Middle East. In this context, TPAO carries out its exploration and production activities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Libya. TPAO is also in contact with Syria, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Iraq, Egypt, Russia and Algeria to initialize new projects.

[Nikitas]

So who gives a stuff if they do as long as they stay inside the area that is their EEZ.

The fun will start when they try to justify their action by invoking...... what else, the Law of the Sea which they do not want to use, because that very same law gives Greece a 12 MILE territorial sea!

Turkey in all its cynical glory.

[CBBB]

So who gives a stuff if they do as long as they stay inside the area that is their EEZ.

The fun will start when they try to justify their action by invoking...... what else, the Law of the Sea which they do not want to use, because that very same law gives Greece a 12 MILE territorial sea!

Turkey in all its cynical glory.

Isn't the "law of the sea" just another internationally recognised treaty that is aimed at damaging Turkish interests, like most internationally recognised treaties?

[Nikitas]

Their announcement shows that they will try exploration antics inside Greek continental shelf limits, south and east of Kastellorizo.

There is a book, title "How to make friends and influence people" which Turkish politicians need to read.