The Turkey to systematically challenge Greek sovereign rights in the Eastern Mediterranean on the occasion of the work of the Italian research vessel C/S TELIRI by issuing a new NAVTEX in an area it calls “Turkish continental shelf” and which overlaps the Greek continental shelf south of Rhodes and Kastelorizo and southeast of Crete.

The same NAVTEX also overlaps part of the Cypriot continental shelf west of the island.

Turkey issued just before midnight on Friday NAVTEX 0615/24 with which announces the laying of a cable (for telecommunications) from the C/S TELIRI, noting that this is an area of the “Turkish continental shelf”.

This new Turkish NAVTEX follows the first announcement issued by the Antalya station and revealed by Proto Thema on June 25 and shows Turkey’s insistence on raising the issue of disputing the Greek continental shelf and reaffirming the “Blue Homeland” and the Turkish-Libyan Memorandum.

The Turkish NAVTEX

TURNHOS N/W : 0615/24 (Antalya NAVTEX Station) (Published Date: 28-06-2024 23:45)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

1.CABLE LAYING OPERATION, BY C/S TELIRI (IMO 9105889) BETWEEN 29 JUN-21 JUL 24 IN THE TURKISH CONTINENTAL SHELF IN AREA BOUND BY;

34 02.53 N – 027 14.13 E
33 56.78 N – 031 21.55 E
33 56.06 N – 031 24.88 E
33 57.80 N – 031 30.53 E
34 33.49 N – 031 20.07 E
34 41.59 N – 030 09.03 E
34 45.98 N – 028 50.21 E
34 32.85 N – 027 45.01 E
34 18.50 N – 027 25.61 E
34 06.07 N – 027 09.88 E

WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.

2. CANCEL THIS MESSAGE 212059Z JUL 24.