Maximus wrote:Erdogan, and it seems turkey just compound their problems instead of resolving them.
This move will only further isolate them and help push the economy over the edge. It’s at a delicate stage at the moment.
Another thing that seems to have gone unnoticed by some is that turkey is not drilling on behalf of the tc as some believe. Or as she says. Turkey is trying to deliminate her own eez in Cyprus,s eez.
The “parasites” in the north are salivating and rubbing their hands together expecting a big pay day. But, turkey wont be able to monetize anything and it’s not the “kkks” eez. Turkey is out for herself using her puppets in the north as the excuse.
Sta nathema va pai.
I do not claim to understand the legalities of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), but if Turkey thinks it has legal rights to drill in others EEZ territories, then why not take the matter to the appropriate International courts to make the determination. So far the RoC has made agreements with Israel and Egypt to drill in their own EEZ. If Turkey thinks it has rights in the EEZ of the RoC, then on the same token, it must have rights in Israel's EEZ also, since Turkey want to use it's argument that they have the longest coast line in the Med. Actually, Greece has the longest coastline in the Med with all of it's islands, but lets just overlook that for the moment so not to make Turkey look foolish.....again. But I do not see Turkey going into Israel's EEZ. Perhaps because it will be blown out of the water with an Exocet missiles fired from 100 miles away.
In the below quote, Cavusoglu believes they are drilling in their own waters.
Turkish flagged drillship Fatih's offshore operations area is located 75 kilometers (46.6 miles) off the west coast of the Island of Cyprus and drilling area has nothing to do with any of the Greek Cypriots' (GC) so-called license areas or Turkish Cypriots' licensed areas granted to Turkish Petroleum (TP), the letter said.
https://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/20 ... r-to-eu-un
The reason why the RoC will not include the TCs in on the drilling, because it knows that the moment that happens, Turkey will be given 50% of the rights to drill in the RoC's EEZ on "behalf" of the TCs, which then will give the "trnc" a legal standing in the eyes of the International law and the UN. That will never be allowed to happen.