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The maritime boundary delimitation memorandum between Turkey and Libya has drawn objections from Egypt, Greece, and Israel, as well as earlier reservations from Tunisia, Malta, and Cyprus. Greece argues that its islands—especially Crete—give it rights to an exclusive economic zone, while Egypt says the delimitation overlaps with its own exclusive economic zone, and Israel fears it could affect energy and telecommunications projects. The dispute matters because of the oil and gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean, and because territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles, while the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone extend 200 nautical miles—or farther in the case of the continental shelf.
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