New Turkish challenges: “scientific” map cuts the Aegean in the middle

On the new level, Turkey is passing on the doctrine of “blue homeland”, as it is reported by the Turkish newspaper Milliyet a scientific map of maritime spatial planning, which predicts that half the Aegean is part of Ankara’s “zone of interest”. As SKAI’s correspondent Manolis Kostidis reports from Constantinople, this plan is part of the Turkish strategy to legally and scientifically establish the narrative of the “Blue Homeland” and to establish national “rights” in the Aegean. Map with a “midline” in the Aegean, according to the report, in the Aegean, the midline was chosen between the continental coasts of Greece and Turkey as a “border”, an option that ignores the existence of the Greek islands, following the logic of Turkish claims. Although the map, as Milliyet points out, does not constitute a formal delineation of marine zones, it is still considered a part of a longer -term legal and geostrategic effort. The next step, according to the newspaper, will be the training of a corresponding maritime plan for the occupied “northern Cyprus”. With […]
Source: News Beast

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