Turkey-Greece Standoff in the Mediterranean Explained

This hardly touches the most important topics in the area.

The biggest problem is Greece's unfair desires. According to international law, the sea border is either drawn according to coastline lengths or the distance between countries.If we were to draw the border according to coastline lengths, the total coastline length  of all Greek islands which face  to the disputed area is 167 km whilst Turkey's coastline length is 1870km! If we were to draw the the border according to distance between them, we firstly need to draw a medial line. Then if a country has an island on the other side of the median line, that island must only have coastal waters, not EEC (exclusive economic zone). You can see the biggest example of this in the dispute between UK and France 1977 or in 1992 Canada-France Saint Pierre & Miquelon case. But Greece claims full EEC for all of its islands that are closer to Turkey. They even claim full EEC for Meis island which is only 2 km far from Turkey. This is unacceptable and completely illegal.

The other big problem is Cyprus. Southern Cyprus have been parcelling the south of Cyprus and renting out to various countries. Northern Cyprus'  shares in the area are completely neglected. In recent years Northern Cryprus gave right to TPAO to search natural gas in the disputed area. Now the parcels and the area that TPAO has right to search natural gas intersect. Even worse, the parcelled area and Turkey's EEC intersect. 

To sum up, Greece and Southern Cyprus want to be sole owners of the area, forgetting the fact that Turks have always been in the mindset "Ya İstiklal Ya Ölüm!" or "Either freedom or death!"  from time immemorial.