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[Capt J Sparrow]

in a move demonstrating turkey's resolve over gas exploration, a second turkish seismic ship set sail this afternoon....

That's no match for my guns! Almost unfair really.

[repulsewarrior]

stop the drilling?

...recognition of the Republic of Cyprus

that's compromise.

[observer]

The Piri Reis is just an old dredger used to shift silt and sediments in shallow waters to clean up canals and such!

If Turks are as proud a people as they claim, why do they make fools of themselves with nonsense about conducting seismic research with a dredger?

A little more research would have shown you that it is an oceanographic research vessel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_K._Piri_Reis. Just the thing for doing .... er .... oceanographic research, like looking for hydrocarbons under the sea bed.

[trcyp]

The Piri Reis is just an old dredger used to shift silt and sediments in shallow waters to clean up canals and such!

If Turks are as proud a people as they claim, why do they make fools of themselves with nonsense about conducting seismic research with a dredger?

A little more research would have shown you that it is an oceanographic research vessel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_K._Piri_Reis. Just the thing for doing .... er .... oceanographic research, like looking for hydrocarbons under the sea bed.

It is a pseudo ship and if it finds natural gas it will be pseudo-gas We will use the pseudo-gas to make pseudo-electricity. But the GCs pay us real money for that pseudo-electricity so they must be real idiots

[Pyrpolizer]

The Piri Reis is just an old dredger used to shift silt and sediments in shallow waters to clean up canals and such!

If Turks are as proud a people as they claim, why do they make fools of themselves with nonsense about conducting seismic research with a dredger?

A little more research would have shown you that it is an oceanographic research vessel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_K._Piri_Reis. Just the thing for doing .... er .... oceanographic research, like looking for hydrocarbons under the sea bed.

It is a pseudo ship and if it finds natural gas it will be pseudo-gas We will use the pseudo-gas to make pseudo-electricity. But the GCs pay us real money for that pseudo-electricity so they must be real idiots

I am glad the matter of giving us electricity helped in raising your self confidence a bit. It always does to idiots.
Listen, supposing you wouldn't give us the 60 MW out of 900 needed, we would just suffer 2.5 hours out of 24 electricity cut instead of 2 hours.
Now idiot tell me what would be the result if Papadopoulos would refuse to supply YOU with 100% of the electricity you needed a few years back. Would you be able to survive 23.5 hours a day without electricity for 1-2 months?
Btw real money means US$ or Euro, not Turkish Lira.

[boomerang]

Noting that they presented a new proposal including four topics to Ban within that scope, Eroglu said that the proposal was presented to the UN as a way of solution to the problem regarding Greek Cypriot efforts to explore oil and natural gas in the Mediterranean.

Listing the topics, Eroglu said, "1-Let's suspend the oil and natural gas exploration simultaneously until a comprehensive solution is found to Cyprus problem, 2-If this is not going to happen, then we shall set up an ad-hoc committee shaped by representatives of both peoples. We shall give some authorities to the committee such as; explorations, agreements and licences depend on written approval of both sides, and we will negotiate the ratio of sharing the richness which will be found, 3-We shall use the income to finance the comprehensive talks, 4-Adoption of the plan shall not harm the positions of both sides."

When asked whether TRNC could give authorization to explore oil and natural gas only for north of the island after signing the agreement on the delineation of continental shelf with Turkey, Eroglu said that Turkish Cypriots had rights on all underwater richness around Cyprus island so that TRNC had the right to give authorization both north and the south of the island.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=79357

...and the theater of the absurd continues...

they got nothing, coz if they did they would be dangling and demanding...

[Get Real!]

The Piri Reis is just an old dredger used to shift silt and sediments in shallow waters to clean up canals and such!

If Turks are as proud a people as they claim, why do they make fools of themselves with nonsense about conducting seismic research with a dredger?

A little more research would have shown you that it is an oceanographic research vessel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_K._Piri_Reis. Just the thing for doing .... er .... oceanographic research, like looking for hydrocarbons under the sea bed.

There’s no doubt that it’s a dredger because it looks like a dredger! That metal horseshoe like structure at the back of the vessel is for attaching earth moving attachments.

Its also classified as a dredger…

http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/R ... 14783.html


Seismic survey vessels look totally different…

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Se ... a=N&tab=wi

[supporttheunderdog]

Regret to say she does not look like a dredger to me: sShe does in fact feature as one of the images in the Goodle page

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Seismic+survey+vessel&start=232&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=640&tbm=isch&tbnid=kBKEWsRCaIa5jM:&imgrefurl=http://www.todayszaman.com/news-257687-turkish-seismic-survey-ship-sets-sail-for-oil-exploration-in-east-med.html&docid=mEr6wOIzd7r2AM&w=614&h=307&ei=mB5_TsH6KoSl8QPO0fyNAQ&zoom=1&chk=sbg&iact=hc&vpx=929&vpy=296&dur=511&hovh=80&hovw=160&tx=239&ty=79&page=14&tbnh=80&tbnw=160&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:232
She may be classed as one but that could be eg for tax / rergulatory reasoms.

The structure at the back is not strong enough to attach any worthwhile earthmoving kit but does look more like the sort of structure that one would use to steam cables off the back. Seee the google page immage of her.

[Get Real!]

Ever wonder why this petty vessel has never made any finds even though it’s been coming and going for three decades?

[supporttheunderdog]

I belive she is supposedly run by a university and if so I suspect she is small general purpose oceanographic reasearch ship that has some kit for doing sesimic work. Last year she was doing earthquake zone/prediction related research.

http://web.deu.edu.tr/deuimst/?SID=haberler

This probably mostly for show as having made his mouth go Erdo has to be seen to be doing something.