Navtexes mirror Ankara claims in the Aegean

The limits of Greece's continental shelf have been disputed by Turkey with a series of navigational telexes (navtexes) that ignore the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo, implying that it has no significance when it comes to delineating maritime regions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

More specifically, Ankara has issued five navtexes (1153/18, 1154/18, 1155/18, 1156/18 and 1157/18) reserving a sea area for naval exercises stretching from Fethiye in southwestern Turkey, south to the island of Kasos and east from there to south of Antalya.

Turkey's navtexes are legal as they reserve areas in international waters.

Nonetheless, they essentially reiterate Turkish claims in the Eastern Mediterranean, as Kastellorizo is cut off from the rest of the Dodecanese chain of islands - basically disputing what Greece says is the eastern edge of its continental shelf...