Davutoglu calls for an exclusive economic zone agreement with Egypt

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The head of the Turkish Future Party, Ahmet Davutoglu called on Tuesday for the conclusion of an exclusive economic zone agreement between Ankara and Cairo, Turkey has the longest coastal strip on the Mediterranean between the countries of the region.

He said, an exclusive economic zone agreement must be concluded between Turkey and Egypt as the way to avoid the Seville map is to conclude that agreement. He stressed that he is still against the coup in Egypt but diplomacy must be pursued. The Map of Seville was developed in 2000 by Professor of Maritime and Human Geography at the University of Seville, Spain, Juan Luis Suarez de Vivero, based on the viewpoint of Greece and Cyprus. De Vivero claimed that the borders of the area that Greece claimed to be its continental shelf in the Aegean and Mediterranean, as well as the exclusive economic zone declared by the southern Cypriot administration in 2004, constitute the official borders of the European Union.

The map claims that the borders of Greece (which is the borders of the European Union) and its continental shelf start from the island of Meis and extend south to the middle of the Mediterranean, leaving Turkey with no outlet except the Gulf of Antalya. Turkey rejects the map, because the island of Meiss is 10 square kilometers, and it is only two kilometers from its land borders, while it is about 580 kilometers from the Greek mainland.

Greece grants the island of Mies according to the map, a continental shelf of 40,000 square kilometers and this situation violates the theses and rules of international law. Greece and Cyprus use the map as an essential tool to realize their dream of isolating Turkey by confining it in a narrow sea space on the banks of the Gulf of Antalya in the Mediterranean