By N. Lygeros
Translated from Greek by Vicky Baklessi
It is difficult for someone to imagine that the issues of EEZ and of Genocide can be correlated. And yet reality proves it.
An efficient way to understand this issue is to place it in the framework of game theory. In this, the players have initial special interests which function as a foundation, but also as behavioral strategies within the field of action. While the EEZ acts as a catalytic element, it causes expected reactions.
The designation of the drilling within the area, where the EEZs of Cyprus and Israel border, after the bilateral agreement, constitutes a change of phase of the game.
This is no longer a potential, because the drilling is an actualization. As long as it was a potential game, each player could think that it exists or not, depending on their will. This is no longer valid. Furthermore, the provoking moves of Turkey, which are nothing but desperation moves, create inevitable reactions from the other players. Israel has been through genocide. Greece has been through genocide. And Cyprus through war crime. These areas are not random and constitute diachronically a continuity.
One of the best proofs are the Knights of Malta, which are successors of the Knights of Jerusalem, of Cyprus and of Rhodes. It is interesting to realize that the concept of EEZ covers through the countries’ bilateral agreements but also the European framework the same topological coherence.
Hence we have a topological field of action within which historically Armenia is included as well and has also been through genocide. And we shouldn’t forget that reference to it, but also to the occupied territories of Cyprus is prosecuted in Turkey, because there exists an article in its Penal Code which prohibits it.
When we examine this framework overall we realize that the move of Israel as retaliation to the military moves of Turkey, which concerns the promotion of the recognition of the genocide of the Armenians through their lobby, not only it is not out of place, as most believe, but it is rational in game theory. Therefore it is not a distraction move, as it may be superficially characterized. The framework of the EEZ with the 200 nautical miles allows a coherence that was not supported by the territorial waters with the 12 nautical miles. There are very few of them who realized these consequences which are radical and foundational.
Since Turkey is trying to avoid the recognitions of the genocides that it has committed, it is difficult to act independently and so it counts on the withdrawal of the other players. This is what it attempted in the case of Artsakh with the land, this is what it is trying with the EEZ at the sea. But Humanity and Time do not forget.
Source: http://www.lygeros.org/articles?n=7838&l=en
