Turkey sent its brand-new hydrocarbons piercing ship to the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday yet President Tayyip Erdogan claimed it would certainly run 55 kilometres (34.18 miles) off Turkey’s coastline, in a location outside waters additionally declared by Cyprus.
Speaking at the launch event in the southerly district of Mersin, Erdogan claimed the location of procedure was within Turkey’s sovereign region which there was “no need for permission from anyone” for it to pierce there.
(Reuters – Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen, Editing by Louise Heavens)