“ Turkey, which backs the Turkish Cypriot breakaway state in northern Cyprus and maintains a army
presence there, says any pure resources found offshore belong to
each communities. Greek officials claimed that the Oruc Reis would not be ready to obtain high quality seismic knowledge on this voyage
due to the big number of army escorts nearby. Final year, Turkey signed a controversial maritime demarcation accord with the acknowledged government of Libya, without
Greek participation. The European Commission known as
for each sides to indicate restraint and work to resolve the division of Cyprus,
which is represented in the European Union by the internationally recognised Greek Cypriot government.
In a social media statement posted Tuesday, former Greek prime
minister Alexis Tsipras called on the government to take additional
steps to secure the Greek continental shelf. Last Thursday, Greece signed a similar bilateral deal with the federal government of
Egypt, setting up an EEZ demarcation line with out respect to Turkey's
claims in the center of the Jap Mediterranean. ”