A Lawful Sea Against a Revisionist Doctrine: The Defence of Greece's Exclusive Economic Zone By Christos Mouroutis cm@gfamfunds.com 10.05.2026 o The legal map and its challenger Greece's Exclusive Economic Zone in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean is not an aspiration. It is an entitlement grounded in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) — ratified by 170 states and recognised as customary international law — supplemented by formal delimitation agreements with Italy and Egypt, and consistently affirmed by the European Union, the United States, France, and the wider community of states that observe the rules-based maritime order. Against this lawful position stands a Turkish doctrine that exists, by deliberate design, outside the legal order: *Mavi Vatan* — "Blue Homeland." Conceived by Admiral Cem Gürdeniz at the Turkish Naval Forces Command in 2006 and operationalised after the failed coup of July 2016, the doctrine claims for Tu...