Cyprus to investigate harassment of Norwegian seismic ship

Cyprus Home — 03 February 2014

NICOSIA - The government is looking into all the facts concerning the harassment of the Norwegian seismic ship Princess by the Turkish navy, off Cyprus’ shores, Deputy Government Spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said on Monday.
He also said that a statement will be issued on the matter later today.
His comments came in response to an announcement by the Turkish armed forces that the ship, which was conducting exploratory research east of Cyprus, was ordered by the Turkish frigate “Giresun” to steer away from what Ankara describes as “Turkish waters.”
The incident happened on Saturday. The Turkish frigate was in the area in the framework of Mediterranean Shield

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NO HARRASMENT – NO INCIDENT happened…. The CGGVeritas M / V Princess was Identified as the ship that would be performing the 2D seismic survey (including collection of marine gravity and magnetic data) conversion be able and obliged to do so much for open and wide area maneuver while she was conducting seismic surveys in the block-6 and she was entered to the Turkish Continental Shelf waters and she was ordered by the Turkish frigate “Giresun” to steer away from what Ankara describes as “Turkish waters.” by means of NAVTEX message but not in a sneaky way….please get your facts right-there was no provocative act. Regards