Turkey issues two NAVTEX for Russian live-fire exercises

Turkey on August 2nd, 2020 issued two NAVTEX for Russian naval exercises with live fire, reserving areas of the eastern Mediterranean where Turkish seismic survey vessels are conducting searches for oil and gas reserves. Issued by the Turkish navy’s Office of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography, Navtex number 1102/20 announces exercises for September 8-22 covering an area south of Kastellorizo where the Turkish seismic survey vessel Oruc Reis is currently active, but which is outside the Greek continental shelf and Athens’ jurisdiction. The second NAVTEX – numbered 1103/20 – is for live-fire Russian exercises from September 17-25 off the coast of…