Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Turkish exploration vessel "Yavuz" will start exploration work today, Tuesday, in the designated area in the eastern Mediterranean, and that it will continue its work until the middle of next month.

It is decided that the exploration ship will accompany three other ships. Turkey, in a notice to the sailors "Naftex", demanded not to enter the field of the ship "Yavuz" business.

"If the Greeks and Roman Cypriots believe that they are capable of forming a new situation in the eastern Mediterranean without reaching an agreement with Turkey and northern Cyprus, they are mistaken," said Omar Celik, a spokesman for the Justice and Development Party.

And Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that the "Aruj Reyes" ship will continue its activities to explore for energy in the eastern Mediterranean until August 23, and "we will never hesitate to respond to the necessary response if it is exposed to the slightest harassment."

The Turkish president affirmed that his country is determined to continue exploration activities for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, adding that his country will not "step back in orbit in its continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean, and will not take any step backward in the face of the language of threat and sanctions."

Erdogan added, "Those who excluded Turkey from energy resources in its southern borders through a careful policy 100 years ago will not succeed in achieving this in the eastern Mediterranean."

Cypriot
actions In turn, Cyprus announced a "counter" notification of NAFTEX in response to the Turkish notification.

According to the Cypriot radio, the Turkish notification is "unauthorized and void, and the activities of the Yavuz and the accompanying ships are illegal."

Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said that the island had concluded maritime agreements with Egypt, Israel and Lebanon, and was ready to discuss the designation of maritime zones with other neighboring countries, without referring directly to Turkey.

This agreement would be based on International Law and the Law of the Sea of ​​1982, Christodoulides added, referring to a United Nations treaty.

Last week, Turkey resumed searches in disputed waters in the Mediterranean, following the collapse of negotiations with Greece, which took place with German mediation, after Athens signed an agreement to demarcate the maritime borders with Egypt.