Showing posts with label East Mediterranean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Mediterranean. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

East Mediterranean – Waters starting to warm up and not because of the spring

by Kakaouskia
Some worrying events happened in the Aegean the past couple of days. Turkey has issued a unilateralNOTAM reserving large swathe of the Aegean, including large part of the Hellenic FIR for military exercises with live fire from 01/03/2015 to 31/12/2015. This effectively cut the Aegean in half, but most importantly it included part of Limnos, a Greek island in north Aegean. So in effect, Turkey has stated that it could use parts of an island belonging to Greece as a firing range.
A close observation of the timeline of events after the cancellation of the South Stream, Greek elections and the recent Eurogroup meeting shows that a few rats are in place: