Turkey-Greece tensions in eastern Med

Greece’s military has been put on alert after Turkey announced that it will be conducting energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean in an area Athens says overlaps its continental shelf


Aug 10: Turkey says its survey ship Oruç Reis and two support vessels will conduct exploratory drilling until Aug 23


Turkish survey area

GREECE
Crete
Athens
Aegean Sea
Rhodes
TURKEY
Istanbul
Ankara
Kastellorizo (Greece)
Self-declared Republic of Northern Cyprus
LIBYA
Mediterranean Sea
CYPRUS 
EGYPT
200km 125 miles

Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) boundary 
Turkey EEZ 
Cyprus EEZ 
Greece EEZ
Continental shelf claimed by Turkey and Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus
Continental shelf claimed by Libya


Sources: AP, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal 
Picture: AP 
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