86003 - Transcription: Turkey is limited to its EEZ and to the Black Sea one at that
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias
Before various scaremongers and supposedly experts of the field get activated, it is good to know that Turkey will be drilling within the Black Sea. Where? Of course within her own EEZ. Within what context? Based upon the demarcation she has already done with the former Soviet Union, but also with Bulgaria in the particular region, so she is completely within her own context. TPAO will be able to do this drillings in a completely legal fashion and therefore, if you read from various ones that even though Turkey received this slap in the face from the European Commission she will continue to drill, yes, because they just don’t specify that she is drilling within her own EEZ, in the Black Sea and not in the Eastern Mediterranean, not in the EEZ of Cyprus nor in the EEZ of Greece. When things function in this manner, and of course Turkey has every right to act this way both officially and legally, we simply ought to not misinterpret and downgrade decisions of the European Commission against Turkey. Because it is quite simple, these decisions only get activated when Turkey commits an illegality. When she is within her own EEZ, within her boundaries and while she’s doing what’s proper, there is no problem for anyone at all. Consequently, now you all know, whatever you may hear coming from the scaremongers especially, remember that it has nothing to do with any confrontation with either Cyprus or Greece, it’s just the normal process of drilling within a country’s EEZ and nothing else.