Whereas authorities sources on Wednesday night mentioned that Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Tayyip Erdogan agreed to the mutual advantage of sustaining a local weather of calm in bilateral relations, on Thursday there was an incident involving a Turkish fishing vessel and a Greek Coast Guard vessel.
Based on the announcement of the Coast Guard, a floating patrol boat noticed a Turkish fishing vessel fishing inside Greek territorial waters, within the sea space northeast of the rocky island of Zourafa.
Through the try to manage the fishing vessel, the captain of the Turkish vessel made a sudden change after all ensuing within the collision of the 2 vessels. After the elimination of the Turkish fishing vessel, the Coast Guard vessel returned to the port of Samothraki, the place minor materials harm was present in its bow part.
Examine it: Incident with Coast Guard and Turkish fishing boat in Zurafa (Video)
For his or her half, the Turkish media confirmed a video that reveals the home windows of the fishing vessel breaking they usually speak about minor accidents to the crew.
However the announcement by the Turkish Coast Guard took it dangerously additional, as a result of it states that the incident occurred “inside Turkish maritime jurisdictional zones”.
The announcement of the Turkish Coast Guard
“On July 11, at 11:25 a.m., it was reported {that a} Turkish-flagged fishing vessel named “Kızılelma-1” was fishing off Zurafa Lighthouse in Çanakkale’s Gökçeada (S.S. Imbros) space when he was harassed by the Greek coast guard, which got here to the scene, handed shut by the fishing boat inflicting materials harm to it, because it hit it on the entrance left aspect. 4 vessels of the Turkish Coast Guard instantly rushed to the scene.
It was established that the Greek Coast Guard shortly moved away from the scene whereas the Turkish Coast Guard vessels had been heading there, that there have been no Greek Coast Guard vessels across the incident in the course of the investigations that adopted, that the crew members on board the fishing vessel had been barely injured by damaged glass because of the collision. The fishing vessel was towed and brought to the port of Gökçeada.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing
The Turkish Coast Guard continues in its responsibility to guard the rights and pursuits within the nation’s seas, inside Turkish maritime jurisdictional zones, 24 hours a day, 7 days every week.”
Giraffe
Zourafa or Ladoxera is an uninhabited islet situated within the prefecture of Evros, particularly at a brief distance east of Samothraki, and north of Imbro.
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