INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA - Turkish Seas and Sine Qua Non Principles

Whoever dominates the sea, dominates the world”.
Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha (1478-1546)

Human history is unthinkable without seas and oceans. The oceans or seas are at the heart of strategies for world domination. Moreover, they are areas that affect the destinies of states.
The law of the sea, which is important for the grand strategies of states, has come to a position that makes its importance felt in the world today with its increasing importance as a part of international public law over the last 20 years. The increasing importance of the law of the sea is mostly due to the fact that tensions arise after the overlapping demands of the coastal states, which sometimes reach the brink of war.
Turkey's right to determine its own maritime jurisdiction areas and to claim its sovereign rights in the Mediterranean, the Sea of ​​Islands or the Black Sea, as elsewhere in the world, derives entirely from the customary law formed by the law of the sea. The problems in the Mediterranean are also seen more clearly with the attitudes of countries such as Greece, which ignore the principles of maritime law.
This work has been written to contribute to the studies carried out in order to advance the struggle in Turkish maritime jurisdictions on a scientific basis. The public law dimension of Turkish maritime jurisdictions is critical and of primary importance in foreign policy.
With the hope that everyone who is interested will read this work, which is the beginning of the steps to be taken regarding the establishment of the legal and technical regime, with excitement and curiosity...