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Daily Sabah (16 August 2026)

A vast expanse of the Aegean Sea, in the north and south, was officially declared a 'National Marine Park' on Sunday as Türkiye seeks to safeguard its territorial waters from Greek claims

Two presidential decrees published in the Official Gazette on Sunday have reaffirmed Türkiye’s maritime rights in the Aegean Sea.

One decree designated an area between the Fethiye district of Muğla and the Kaş district of Antalya in the south of the Aegean as a “national marine park,” while another applied the same designation to an area in the North Aegean Sea, near the coasts of Tekirdağ and Çanakkale.

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