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[Faruk Kaymakcı @frkkymkc]

History of Greek Cypriot accession based on cheating, in violation of EU acquis&against founding agreements of "Republic of Cyprus of 1960"by which it cannot be a member of any intl. organisations where both 🇹🇷&🇬🇷are members, will have to be rectified one day for a peaceful��🇺.

[🇬🇧 Jolene Bunting 🇬🇧 @jolenebuntinguk]

Greek authorities reportedly 'fire shots' at immigrant boat during a ’Push-Back Operation’ to stem the tide of illegal immigrants arriving on the Greek coast.

#Greekborder #GreeceUnderAttack #IStandWithGreece #Invasion #DefendEurope #CloseTheBorders

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was furious when #Dutch journalist Ingeborg Beugel asked him to "stop lying" about #Greece's unlawful and "cruel, barbarian pushbacks" against #refugees. https://t.co/b4LFNaWpGh

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

13. Countries can engage in such activities in contested zones. Except drilling etc which create irreparable damage. So the objections are valid only if the zone is viewed as being part of Greek EEZ. Which as explained above requires Kastellorizo to be granted the outsized CS.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

12. I should also add that if one acknowledges that the area where the ship Oruc Reis operated is at the very least a contested maritime zone, then no objections can be made under international law for seismic research by Turkey or Greece for that matter.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

11. That is why I believe the parties should consider more seriously the formula of a "condominium", namely agree to disagree on maritime borders but agree to cooperate commercially for the exploitation of under sea resources in East Med and the Aegean.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

10. So Turkey would "dominate" the East Med once Kastellorize is recognized as being devoid of a continental shelf. In return Greece would still maintain a substantial advantage in the Aegean by virtue of its multitude of islands.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

9. Which means that the future East Med gas pipeline would necessarily go through Turkey's exclusive economic zone giving Ankara substantial leverage over its realisation even if legally Turkey can't obstruct its construction.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

8. So under these circumstances, we would end up with a very interesting outcome. 1. The Turkey-Libya maritime border agreement would be imperiled. 2. Greece would have no maritime border with Cyprus.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

7. In return, in a hypothetical court case, Turkey's assertions that other Dodacanese islands like Rhodes and Crete have no continental shelf would be equally hard to defend.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

6. Before I get a barrage of objections arguing than why Turkey does not go to court, pls read my previous tweets. Which contend that Turkey is not against going to court but along with other bilateral disputes with Greece.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

5. Several cases of intl jurisprudence show that on account in differences in population, surface area, proximity to Turkey, economic activity, length of sea shore etc. Kastellorize would probably end up having close to zero continental shelf if a court were to adjudicate.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

4. To the detriment of the Anatolian mainland. A simple look at the map would show how difficult it would be to defend this maximalist claim before international courts.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

3. Given the exact coordinates of the latest venture, this assumption rests solely on the claim that the island of Kastellorizo 2 nautical miles to the Anatolian mainlaind with a population abt 400 and a surface area 10 sq km generates a continental shelf of around 40.000 sq km

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

2. The reaction to the seismic exploration of the Turkish ship derives from the understanding that the maritime zone where it undertook the exporation is part of the Greek continental shelf.

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

1. Now that Oruc Reis is back in Antalya, a most welcome development in terms of creating the conditions for direct Turkey-Greece negotiations, let's review the main tenets of the latest escalation in the East Med.

[Faruk Kaymakcı @frkkymkc]

.@ManfredWeber It is not Turkey but few Member States which weaken the EU by abusing EU solidarity and unanimity and trying to realise their own narrow minded, national and illegitimate gains against the general interests of Europe of which Turkey is also part and parcel.

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President @RTErdogan spoke by phone with President of the European Council Charles Michel. @trpresidency

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2 Syrian refugees were killed by the Greek border police yesterday while they trying to move to Greece following Turkey’s policy change opening border crossings to Europe. #GreeceAttacksRefugees #warning

[TRT World @trtworld]

A Syrian refugee was allegedly killed by Greek security forces while trying to cross into Greece.

Thousands of refugees and migrants are waiting to cross the border after Turkey opened its side of the frontier