Abstract:

The Eastern Mediterranean is a strategic inland sea where many civilizations and states have struggled for power since ancient times and the states that seized it became the most powerful state or empire of that period, as well as being the center of the world in terms of geopolitics, which forms the backbone of the trade between the east and the west. 21 st century the hydrocarbon (oil-natural gas compositions) resources discovered in the region in the early days added a new and very important factor to the geopolitical characteristics of the region. While the states with interest in the Eastern Mediterranean basin entered into a power struggle among themselves to own the resources in this region, on the other hand, they invited energy companies oprerating on a global scale to explore and extract these resources. The states in the region have tried to guarantee the borders of the EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) with 2-for-3 agreements in order to determine the maritime jrisdiction areas. Fort his reason, each state wanted to highlight its different characteristics while determining its own jurisdiction, which has revealed maritime jurisdiction disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Among the states in the region, Turkey, Libya and TRNC are in a diffrent block, while Greece, Egypt, Israel and the Greek Cypriot Administration are in a different block. The EEZ border agreements made by these two structures with each other again led to the overlapping of each other’s maritime jurisdiction areas. The principle of midlines and diagonal lines determined during these agreements led to the growth of these problems and the emergence of disagreements. The aim of this study is to map the borders of the EEZ signed in the Eastern Mediterranean basin and their incompatibilities with the Arch Map 10.4 system, based on the national and international data we have obtained, and to propose solutions in a geographical perspective.

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