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Turkey has not revealed where drilling will take place.
The areas Abdulhamid Han, the drillship set to sail in the coming days. will explore have not been revealed, but if the drilling takes place within the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone, tensions in the Mediterranean are bound to rise.
There is also the possibility that the Abdulhamid Han will head for areas within Libya’s exclusive economic zone where seismic surveys have been conducted in the past.
A new landscape has emerged after the new agreement between Greece and Egypt on search and rescue areas, where the two countries have effectively undercut Turkey’s illegal deal with Libya.
The agreement defines the limits of jurisdiction and areas of responsibility for search and rescue between Greece and Egypt, which are identified with the Flight Information Region (FIR) of Athens and Cairo respectively.
The signed agreement is “in contrast to the so-called “cooperation memoranda” between Turkey and the government of Tripoli, which constitute illegal, delinquent, invalid and destabilizing behaviors,” Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said.
It was inaugurated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in September who at the time said that it will be sent to an area northwest of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean.
Erdogan called the Abdulhamid Han a “symbol of Turkey’s new vision in the area of energy.”
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