The “gray” requirements of Ankara to NATO for the Aegean sea

Mar 5, 2016

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It turns out that the statements of the Turkish FOREIGN minister Mevlut Cavusoglu before the Greek counterpart. Kotzia for domination in the Aegean, only random was not…
According to a report in the Daily, Sunday, Ankara has raised a series of requirements in NATO by restoring the “grey” areas.
The Turks are reported to be demanding, among other things, the activities to be transferred away from the “problem areas” in the Aegean “in order not to create tensions”, to be referred to only by numbers of small islands, to be respected for the areas that the neighbouring country has declared to the International Organisation of Navigation, in the case of search and rescue in the Aegean sea, while calling on the coalition not to “adopt allegations” of Athens on the Greek airspace as 10 nautical miles.
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Some of the requirements of Ankara to the military committee of NATO:
The maritime activities to be transferred away from the “problem areas” in the Aegean sea
In the case of search and rescue in the Aegean sea, areas that Turkey has declared to the International Organisation of Navigation, should be respected
Claims (of Athens) on “so-called” airspace to 10 nautical miles, I should refer to the general operating instructions
Not made port calls to the islands of the Eastern Aegean
Be referred to only by numbers of small islands
Paved the way for the Cavusoglu
It is recalled that on Friday, in his remarks in Athens after meeting with him. Kotzia, the Turkish FM stressed: “no matter what is your own island, what is the island that I own, it’s yours, it’s mine, when it comes to cases of rescue, where I put such issues”.
In the words of Cavusoglu replied Nikos Kotzias, indicating that Greece is not a revisionist power and that wishes to respect the rules of international law, with the SOUTHWEST to speak of sad mutism of the Greek FOREIGN ministry in front of the Turkish challenges. On Saturday the New. Kotzias was attributed to incomplete translation of the lukewarm reaction.
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