DOĞU AKDENİZ BÖLGESİNDEKİ MÜNHASIR EKONOMİK BÖLGETARTIŞMALARININ ANALİZİ
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE DEBATES IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to determine the rights in the exclusive economic zone of Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) arising from international law and analyse the regional risks and opportunities. Turkey and Regional Countries are comparatively analysed considering the term exclusive economic zone (EEZ) belong to International maritime law. As a result of the analysis, Turkey has advantages compare to the other regional countries due to its longest coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In addition, the crises experienced by the countries of the region under the influence of the Arab Spring, the continuation of the political problem on the island of Cyprus, and the presence of potential hydrocarbon areas made the situation difficult to determine the boundaries of EEZ. This study offers Turkey to make three different EEZ delimitation agreements. The first is to make an EEZ delimitation agreement with Libya in response to anti-Turkey coalition created by Greece -EgyptianIsraeli-The Southern Cyprus Administration. The second is to make an agreement with Syria to determine adjacent coast border. The last is to make with TRNC in order to determine opposite coast border.

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