A row between Turkey and Greece over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean
A plethora of countries is entangled in a string of disputes in the area
AS NAVAL BATTLES go, it was not a classic. The Kemal Reis, a Turkish frigate named after a 15th-century Ottoman admiral who tormented the Venetian fleet, was one of five escorts sent to protect the Oruc Reis, an exploration ship designed to hunt for undersea oil and gas. The Limnos, an elderly Greek frigate charged with protecting Greece’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from such predations, watched warily from a distance. On August 12th they collided after a clumsy manoeuvre.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Battling over boundaries”
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