New attack from Turkey: Greece’s fishing maps draw “imaginary borders” in the Aegean and the Mediterranean

The maps published by the Greek Directorate of Fisheries Control, which present sportfishing restrictions for biology reasons, person triggered a absorption from Turkey. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that “the maps, which gully imaginary maritime borders betwixt Turkey and Greece in the Aegean and the Mediterranean and interruption Turkey’s maritime jurisdiction successful these areas, are invalid.”

This connection comes amid rising tensions caused by Ankara successful caller days, pursuing the Trilateral Cooperation betwixt Greece, Cyprus, and Israel.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry besides claims that Greece is imposing sportfishing restrictions successful areas of the Aegean and Mediterranean wherever it has nary jurisdiction, arguing that these measures interruption planetary law. It makes circumstantial notation to restrictions beyond 6 nautical miles and successful planetary waters, which Turkey considers “invalid.”

In its statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry adds that Turkey supports a “sincere attack to resolving issues based connected planetary law, equality, and bully neighborly relations,” wrong the model of the Athens Declaration connected Friendly Relations and Good Neighborliness of December 7, 2023.

Ankara refers to maps published connected the Greek Directorate of Fisheries Control website, portion contiguous Special Environmental Studies (SES) 8A and 8B for Natura 2000 areas successful the South Aegean were approved, paving the mode for the completion of the ineligible model for the South Aegean National Marine Park 1 – Southern Cyclades.

According to the Ministry of Environment and Energy, these caller studies implicit the required biology model for drafting the Presidential Decree. They besides screen onshore areas of the largest islands included successful the Natura 2000 web that had been pending, pursuing the support astatine the extremity of 2025 of the survey for the marine portion of the park.

Their support contributes to the important extortion of the Cyclades and parts of the Dodecanese, arsenic good arsenic to the broad safeguarding of their unsocial earthy environment. For the archetypal time, a clear, coherent, and modern regulatory model is being established for protected areas crossed the Cyclades, parts of the Dodecanese, and the islets Falkonera and Velopoula successful the Myrtoan Sea. At the aforesaid time, the wide readying for the extortion of the marine and land situation of the South Aegean is being strengthened.

It is recalled that since April 2025, Turkey has been raising tensions implicit Greece’s Maritime Spatial Planning, which defines permitted activities successful marine areas successful enactment with European legislation, arsenic good arsenic implicit the designation of 2 marine parks. Turkey had published its ain maritime plan, which, however, systematically violated Greek sovereign rights.