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I wonder what the Turkish response to this is going to be?

As background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/turkey-insists...

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Even if you were to believe that Northern Cyprus was an independent country, or part of Turkey, this cable passes through Israeli, Cypriot and Greek waters, to the south of the island

You can see the conflicting claims here, https://www.sigmaturkey.com/energy-and-geopolitics-in-the-ax...

Edit: It should be noted the article takes a pro-Turkish stand, but it does demonstrate the conflicting claims.

So it seems that Turkey wants to ignore Greek EEZ, which seems to be acknowleged by other neighbours including Egypt. From the limited maps showing it seems this pipeline never gets nearer to Turkey or even Northern Cyprus than to Cyprus or Greece, thus remains in their EEZ under the UN Convention on the Law of The Sea

It seems Turkey's view is that countries like Malta, Cyprus, Cuba, New Zealand etc can't have EEZs, let alone islands that are part of a country, like Shetland, Hawaii, the Aleutian islands, etc.

Now sure they can claim whatever they want, but with EU, US and UN against them it's rather moot.

This hasn't stopped Turkey from laying claim on oil reserves found on the south side of the island. So why should this be any different?

Probably not too much. Turkey is already part of and synchronized to the continental European grid. Connecting Cyprus to it makes sense for them as well.

There's no negative impact on Turkey apart from making it more difficult for them to blockade Cyprus (which would be a highly aggressive move, anyway)

The "negative impact" is Cyprus being recognized as a sovereign.

Cyprus is a member of the EU and has been recognized as a sovereign country by pretty much everyone already. The northern part called the TRNC and under Turkish control isn't however.

Cyprus is a member of the EU, it is recognised internationally, it is a member of the UN... an electric cable is nothing.

They will have to acknowledge the territorial waters as Greek, or go, and do something about it.

It isn't even acknowledged in the news right now, so probably nothing

Many articles in Turkish run media. But in reality? Not much.

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