A Turkish official at the Foreign Ministry challenged Greece’s sovereignty around the island of Kastelorizo and thus defying all norms of the International Law of the Sea. Acting director at the Turkish foreign ministry, Cagatay Erciyes posted Ankara’s totally unfounded and reality-twisting claims on Twitter, thus adding a map indicating of the Greek island of Kastelorizo:
Believeing that a tiny island of 10 km2, located 2km away from Turkey and 570km away from Greece can create 40.000 km2 maritime zone in the East Mediterranean is ridiculous. https://t.co/Q0Os8GiZi0
— Çağatay Erciyes 🇹🇷 (@CErciyes) January 9, 2020
“570km away from Greece”??? In case, the Turkish Foreign Ministry did not hear it yet, we are glad to inform its illiterate officials that “Kastelorizo is in Greece and not hundreds of km away from it.
“Ridiculous” is, of course, to be the general director of a foreign ministry and to falsely claim and allegedly believe that 1) Exclusive Economic Zones have only the mainland as point of reference 2) islands do not have continental shelves 3) Greece’s borders refer only to mainland like Athens as he claims and 4) that Kastellorizo is not a island belonging to Greece but just a “stateless island close to Turkey.”
According to the Turkish baseless interpretation of the International Law, Sri Lanka has absolutely no right to claim EEZ. Likewise the UK, Ireland, Island, Philippines, Japan and other islanders and of course Cyprus. Not to mention Greenland, Corsica, Crete etc etc etc … pic.twitter.com/F2rL9e7PHB
— Kostas Kalketinidis (@kostkalk71) January 10, 2020
It is apparently the Turkish weird and unique logic: what I do not like, does not exist.
Several Turkish F-16 proceeded to violation of Greek air space on Friday.
