Turkish Navtex prompts Greece to cancel license for German ship

Athens has cancelled the license it granted to the Meteor ship to conduct research on behalf of the University of Heidelberg in the Aegean Sea after Turkey on Wednesday disputed Greece's sovereign rights by granting its own permits to the German vessel. 

More specifically, Ankara on Wednesday issued a navigational telex (Navtex) reserving the Aegean Sea in its entirety for scientific research and granted the Meteor the right to conduct operations, implying that Turkey and not Greece has the sovereign right to issue such licenses. 

Last Friday, the Meteor, which is owned by the Germany's Federal Ministry of Education, was harassed in the sea area between Samothrace and Limnos in the northern Aegean by the Turkish coast guard, which warned the captain to leave, saying the vessel was in Turkish waters. 

However, the Meteor had been granted all the necessary permits...