The Turks don’t want to challenge the Aegean-E.Med for now but no one knows what games they will play next
The exit of the 4th Turkish floating drilling rig Abdulhamid Han will not initially be towards the Eastern Mediterranean, as everyone believed, but towards the area north of Cyprus in the direction of Alexandretta, showing a willingness not to challenge either Greece or Cyprus, due to pressure of the international factor.
But since we are talking about Neo-Ottoman Turks with officially declared plans, we would do well to keep a very small basket, since what the Turkish floating drilling rig will do next is unknown, and clearly concerns the decision of Turkish President Erdogan.
On the same wavelength about neo-Ottoman plans, there is an article that reveals permanent and permanent plans of Ankara dating back to 1970, with a presentation of maps from the Russian media.
These are plans that, although they seem to be getting a reprieve with today’s mission of the Abdulhamid Han to Turkish waters, we will probably see them at some point in the next indefinite period of time.
The Russians report that the game of the Turks in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean starts from the areas of responsibility and rescue and ends in the EEZ.
“Turkey is ready to send its ships for rescue not only in the disputed areas of the (Greek) EEZ, but also in the very territorial waters of Greece even close to the Greek islands.
Thus, even in such an apparently purely peaceful issue, Turkey is displaying an aggressive-expansionist policy.
In 2009 and 2012, Turkey “licensed” several areas to the well-known company TPAO in the disputed areas of Kastellorizos.
In 2018, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially presented to the world for the first time a map of the “Blue Homeland”, which is Turkey’s claims in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea with a total area of 462 square meters. km
This map essentially included all previous Turkish claims since the 1970s.
In fact, the “Blue Homeland” of Turkey completely surrounded not only Rhodes, but also Karpathos.
Thus, by 2018, Turkey has formalized its new claims in the Mediterranean and Aegean regions.
The Turks in 2019 and 2020 tried, as they said in Greece, to “mark” their new maritime territory with the active support of the Turkish Navy, but they failed,” the Russian article concludes, among other things.
Now at this time, the 4th Turkish floating drilling rig may be moving within Turkish territorial waters, but the discovery of block 6 of the Cypriot EEZ of a large field, and the possibility of hydrocarbons in the SE of Crete have not been deleted from the Turkish plans.
In any case, because we are talking about Turks, the readiness of the Greek Armed Forces and our Navy is and will remain at very high levels.
In the area from Cyprus to Crete, Greek submarines have been “launched”, mainly the modern type-214 “Papanikolis”, but also the rest, which have a full combat load, and with new torpedoes.
Also, our satellite station monitors everything in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through French satellites, while we also have Israeli help, according to the Greek press.
It is currently unknown where the Turkish drilling rig will move after the area of Alexandretta, since the appetites of the Turkish president are great.
What is certain, however, is that the Turks will attempt again and again to achieve their plan, in a copy of the war tactics of their “juries” in the past.
But whatever they do, the Greek “drums” will be there waiting to intercept them in any case.
