With a second anti-NAVTEX issued within just a few hours, Ankara is signalling its intentions ahead of the planned resumption of surveys for the laying of the Cyprus–Crete electricity interconnector cable.

Both Turkish notices have been issued for areas through which the electricity interconnector cable will pass and where surveys will be conducted by the vessel Abeille Marengo.

Just hours after attempting to challenge Greece’s area of responsibility and its authority to issue NAVTEX notices, following a Greek announcement concerning the multinational EUNOMIA exercise, Turkey has once again intervened, seeking to interfere with a major project: the East to Med Corridor (EMC), a data transmission cable that will connect Asia with Europe via Saudi Arabia, Cyprus and Greece.