What does the new Navtex mean for the Yavuz ship?

Oruç Reis and Yavuz were doing research in very different regions. The area Oruç Reis researched was the region that was in dispute with Greece.

Oruç Reis was doing research in the area south of the Greek island of Meis. Greece, Meis Island “continental shelf and exclusive economic zone” claims to be, which is Turkey’s mainland, because there is only a small island of Meis territorial waters or the continental shelf south of Antalya, he argues.

In Turkey, the mainland to the island so close to what the territorial waters of the continental shelf can not be declared nor condition. Yavuz ship, Turkey’s much further south, is continuing its research in the area bounded to the southwest of the island of Cyprus.

This region has nothing to do with Greece’s claims.

ORUÇ REİS WAS IN CONFLICT WITH GREECE

Indeed, Lent tension between Turkey and Greece after published NavTex Reis grew, tensions had been included in the EU and US. EU, Turkey has threatened to sanction found, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “We are deeply concerned about the actions of Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean,” he explained.

Following these developments, the AKP government, on the other hand, pulled the research ship to Antalya port yesterday with a surprising decision, despite Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s announcement that “Oruç Reis will stay in the Mediterranean for three months” at the end of August. The reason for Oruç Reis’s withdrawal to Antalya port was declared as “routine maintenance”.

Oruç Reis had criticisms of “retreating” from the opposition after Çavuşoğlu’s withdrawal, despite the “three months” announcement before.

YAVUZ’S RESEARCH REGION HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH GREECE

While the opposition described the withdrawal of Oruç Reis to the port as a “step back”, the AKP government announced today a new Navtex and announced that the duty of the Yavuz ship in the area where it was researching was extended until October 12.