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Burcu Köksal: “Yarın AK Parti’ye katılıyorum, çok huzurluyum, içim çok rahat.”

Nowadays, attacks against Türkiye’s Mavi Vatan doctrine on political and legal platforms are intensifying, driven primarily by Greek and Israeli circles. The real problem in the Eastern Mediterranean is not Türkiye’s defense of its maritime rights. The real problem is the attempt to imprison a continental state with the longest coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean within narrow coastal waters through maximalist maps and politically manipulated interpretations of international law promoted by Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, with direct support from the EU, the United States, and Israel. They want Türkiye to capitulate to the so-called Seville Map. The so-called Seville Map is not international law. It is a politically motivated academic fantasy designed to trap Türkiye behind a handful of small islands. No serious maritime strategist or legal expert can credibly explain how tiny islands located just miles off the Turkish mainland could generate massive maritime zones capable of imprisoning an entire coastline extending more than 1,000 miles. Geography, equity, and maritime reality simply do not support such absurdity. Even the EU itself never officially adopted the Seville Map as legally binding because its maximalist claims contradict both equity and common sense. At the same time, those lecturing Türkiye about “international law” conveniently remain silent on the militarization of the Eastern Aegean islands in violation of international treaties; attempts to usurp the sovereign rights of the Turkish Cypriots and the transformation of the Eastern Mediterranean into a geopolitical frontline through anti-Türkiye alliances and blocs. Türkiye is not “claiming the Mediterranean.” Türkiye is defending the Mavi Vatan against encirclement strategies designed to cut Anatolia off from the sea. History has repeatedly shown what happens to nations that lose maritime access, energy security, and strategic depth. Maps drawn for political fantasies cannot change geography. Nor can propaganda erase Türkiye’s continental shelf realities, sovereign rights, and legitimate security interests. Türkiye cannot and will not accept the maritime version of the Treaty of Sèvres imposed in the 1920s. For Türkiye, this is not a matter of preference but of geopolitical survival in a zero-sum strategic environment.