A Turkish diplomat has revealed a map which delineates waters in the Mediterranean claimed by Turkey, amid an ongoing months-long standoff with Cyprus and Greece over Turkish oil and gas exploration and drilling inside Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). “After signing deals with its own puppet state in occupied northern Cyprus and with the pseudo-government in Libya’s Tripoli, Turkey declares that it owns half of the eastern Mediterranean,” Aron Lund, an analyst at The Century Foundation, observes of the newly published map. A new map outlining Turkey’s claimed continental shelf and the borders of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), via Hurriyet Daily. Meanwhile, the entire eastern side of Cyprus is claimed by the internationally disputed “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.” And Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily explains: “With the chart, Ça?atay Erciyes showed the outer boundaries of Turkey’s continental shelf and EEZ , designated in a 2011 agreement between Turkey […]