The news passed in silence. On Boxing Day the Turkish ship for oil drilling Yavuz sailed to the Cypriot territorial waters, more specifically to the south of the island, to begin explorations in the EEZ (Economic Exclusive Zone) of competence of ENI.
Obviously, no word is uttered by our Executive regarding the clear violation (as if an Italian ship began drilling without authorization in the Strait of the Dardanelles), despite the fact that the Turkish ship has been stationed in an area where it should not be for two weeks.
Recall that the concession was issued to ENI by a sovereign state, Cyprus, a full member of the European Union. Of course, if the Turks had violated the area reserved for the American ExxonMobil, the VIᵃ Fleet would certainly not have been watching.
In these days the Turkish Navy is engaged in the transhipment of men and materials (in open violation of the UN embargo) in Libya, in order to feed the resistance to the attacks of the Haftar forces and maybe go, in the coming weeks, to the offensive .
Not long ago, a national newspaper stressed how the intervention of the Turkish military could be an element of "civilization" of the Libyan civil war.
However, it is omitted to say that ex-jihadist fighters, accustomed to the massacres perpetrated in the Syrian civil war, are currently being armed and equipped by Ankara.
Turkey, therefore, is extremely aggressive throughout the Mediterranean basin, where instead the Italian Navy is distracted in other activities (such as support for NGOs).
A political change by the Conte government would be necessary, in order to use the units of the Navy to block any ship with illegal cargoes directed towards the Libyan coasts, in full compliance with the UN resolution, and perhaps dislodge the Yavuz from Cypriot waters.
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