Ankara issued a Navtex directive to shipping in Republic of Cyprus jurisdiction waters, with Nicosia responding with an anti-Navtex, declaring Turkish activity in the area as illegal.
\nTurkey said \u2018Bilim 2\u2019 was going to be conducting scientific research in a number of areas off the Cypriot northern shores, starting on March 5th through to Friday the 15th.
\nThe Cyprus anti-Navtex points to the Turkish violation of Republic territory, international law and maritime safety procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ankara issued a Navtex directive for shipping in waters under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus, which was countered by Nicosia with an anti-Navtex, labeling Turkey’s activities in the area as illegal. Turkey announced that the vessel ‘Bilim 2’ would conduct scientific research off the northern shores of Cyprus from March 5th to March 15th. The Cyprus anti-Navtex highlighted the Turkish actions as violations of the Republic’s territory, international law, and maritime safety procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1014,3,358,187,148,712,1015,406,796,1016,114,177,170,483],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-anti-navtex","tag-cyprus","tag-energy","tag-international","tag-local","tag-maritime","tag-navtex","tag-nicosia","tag-shipping","tag-territorial-waters","tag-top-news","tag-turkey","tag-violation","tag-violations"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n