Turkey wants other regional states to know that it will not be excluded from talks over the future of the resource-rich Eastern Mediterranean Sea
excluding Turkey, and have drawn up Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean in order to launch their own exploration efforts.
In this Tuesday, July 9, 2019 photo, a helicopter flies near Turkey's drilling ship, 'Fatih' dispatched towards the eastern Mediterranean, near the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Before the Turkish-Libyan maritime deal, Greece, Israel and the Greek Cypriot Administration tried to outmanoeuvre Ankara by designating their own sea borders, signing agreements among themselves.
In Cyprus, located in the middle of the Eastern Mediterranean, the island’s Turkish and Greek populations have been unable to come to terms with each other ever since the 1974 Turkish intervention, which aimed to prevent a change in its political status quo following the Greek Cypriot military coup against the internationally-recognised government of the Republic of Cyprus.
But that did not happen. Following the failed UN-sponsored talks, Turkey announced that Ankara would retaliate against unilateral Greek Cypriot exploration in the region, starting its own exploration efforts in April 2017. As the conflict has drawn regional and global players like Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy and Turkey, the Libyan war became a heavily internationalised issue.
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