{"id":141794,"date":"2019-05-20T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/cavusoglu-informed-his-interlocutors-on-the-issue-of-the-drilling-activities-of-the-fatih-vessel-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:26:06","slug":"cavusoglu-informed-his-interlocutors-on-the-issue-of-the-drilling-activities-of-the-fatih-vessel-in-the-eastern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/cavusoglu-informed-his-interlocutors-on-the-issue-of-the-drilling-activities-of-the-fatih-vessel-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu informed his interlocutors on the issue of the drilling activities of the Fatih vessel in the Eastern Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu sent a letter to the EU member countries and the Foreign Ministers of the UN Security Council\u2019s permanent members, and the EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy High Representative Federica Mogherini and informed them regarding Turkey\u2019s drilling activities of the Fatih vessel in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his letter Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu underlined Turkey\u2019s political and legal position and stressed that the area in question lies entirely within the Turkish continental shelf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reiterating that the Turkish government granted licences to Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) in 2009 and 2012 including the offshore operations area which is located 75 kilometres off the west coast of the island of Cyprus, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu underlined that the EU\u2019s support to the Greek Cypriots &#8211; just for the sake of membership solidarity &#8211; is not compatible with international law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that Turkey has made its position clear regarding the Eastern Mediterranean since 2004 and registered it with the United Nations, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu pointed out that Turkey does not accept the unilateral Exclusive Economic Zone claims of the Greek Cypriots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu sent a letter to the EU member countries and the Foreign<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}