Türkiye warns French vessel over unauthorized East Med research

Türkiye's foreign ministry warned a French-flagged vessel against undersea-cable survey work in what Ankara calls its own continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean, saying the work lacked Turkish approval. It cancelled navigational warnings Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration had issued for the area, reaffirming the continental-shelf boundaries Türkiye notified to the UN in March 2020.

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