The Law of the Sea: Cyprus v Turkey
By Alper Ali Riza QC
APART from naked self-interest, there is nothing to get too patriotic about oceanic sovereignty as no state has sovereignty over the high seas because the sea belongs to the world at large. Extravagant claims of sovereignty over the high seas ceased in the eighteenth century. On the other hand the right to claim an Exclusive Economic Zone has received wide acceptance and it is absurd for the government of Turkey to maintain that it should not be claimed by Cyprus until the Cyprus problem is resolved. Yet its application was bound to be controversial in confined areas of the sea in regions with extant political problems.
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