{"id":128938,"date":"2026-10-10T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/?p=128938"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:58:51","slug":"oruc-reis-turkish-cyprus-gas-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/oruc-reis-turkish-cyprus-gas-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Oru\u00e7 Reis reaches Kyrenia mapping Turkish Cyprus gas pipeline route"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The Turkish Post) \u2013<\/strong> T\u00fcrkiye’s research vessel Oru\u00e7 Reis has reached waters off Kyrenia, known in Turkish as Girne, in Turkish Cyprus while mapping the seabed for a planned gas pipeline between the two, Turkish media reported on Saturday, Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

The ship is surveying the route of a 101-kilometer line that would run from Anamur, in Mersin province on T\u00fcrkiye’s southern coast, to Teknecik, east of Kyrenia. Officials aim to complete technical work this year, begin producing pipes next year and bring the pipeline into service in 2028.<\/p>\n

Oru\u00e7 Reis maps the seabed<\/h2>\n

Oru\u00e7 Reis left Anamur at the start of October to produce three-dimensional images of the seabed along the route. T\u00fcrkiye issued a maritime safety notice, known as a NAVTEX and numbered 0953\/26, for the work through its hydrographic station in Antalya, covering the period from Oct. 1 to Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

The vessel is working with three support ships, the Denar Pathfinder, the Denar Echo and the K\u0131r\u0131c\u0131. In July, Oru\u00e7 Reis carried out an earlier survey on a shorter section of the route south of Anamur, under a notice that ran until Aug. 30.<\/p>\n

Oru\u00e7 Reis, built at a shipyard in Istanbul, is T\u00fcrkiye’s main seismic research vessel and entered service in 2017. It was at the center of a standoff with Greece in the eastern Mediterranean in 2020, when Athens and Ankara traded accusations over overlapping claims to maritime areas.<\/p>\n

A two-way gas pipeline<\/h2>\n

Of the planned gas pipeline’s 101 kilometers, 97 would run under the Mediterranean and four over land. The project envisages two lines. One would carry natural gas from T\u00fcrkiye to Turkish Cyprus. The other would be used to send gas from future discoveries in the region through T\u00fcrkiye to Europe.<\/p>\n

Turkish Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, is recognized only by T\u00fcrkiye. It generates most of its electricity from fuel oil at power stations, including the plant at Teknecik, the planned landing point of the pipeline.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye already supplies the island’s north with water through a subsea pipeline from the Anamur area that was completed in 2015. It was designed to carry 75 million cubic meters of water a year from the Alak\u00f6pr\u00fc Dam.<\/p>\n

Agreement with Turkish Cyprus<\/h2>\n

The project is based on an agreement signed on July 10 by Turkish Vice President Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz and Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel.<\/p>\n

The foreign ministry of the Greek Cypriot administration in the south of the island declared the agreement illegal within hours of its signing. Greece has also objected to Turkish survey work in the region.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye says surveys and cable-laying in areas where it claims continental shelf rights require prior coordination with Ankara. Ankara has applied that position to a planned electricity cable that would link Greece, through Crete, with the Greek Cypriot administration and Israel.<\/p>\n

Energy rivalry in the eastern Mediterranean<\/h2>\n

Cyprus has been divided since July 1974, when T\u00fcrkiye intervened militarily after a coup backed by the military government then ruling Greece. President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan visited the north in July 2024 for the 50th anniversary of the intervention. In 2004, Turkish Cypriots voted in favor of a UN reunification plan, while Greek Cypriots rejected it, and the Greek Cypriot administration joined the European Union the same year. The last round of reunification talks collapsed in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, in 2017.<\/p>\n

Gas discoveries off Cyprus, Israel and Egypt since the late 2000s have turned the eastern Mediterranean into an arena of competing energy projects. T\u00fcrkiye and the Turkish Cypriot administration argue that Turkish Cypriots have equal rights to any oil and gas resources found around the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Turkish Post) \u2013 T\u00fcrkiye’s research vessel Oru\u00e7 Reis has reached waters off Kyrenia, known in Turkish as Girne, in Turkish Cyprus while mapping the seabed for a planned gas pipeline between the two, Turkish media reported on Saturday, Oct. 10. The ship is surveying the route of a 101-kilometer line that would run from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","jnews_video_option_group":[[]],"override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"custom","post_date_format_custom":"d\/m\/Y H:m","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"4","zoom_button_in_step":"4","show_post_tag":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,116,119,118,114,112,115,113],"class_list":["post-128938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkiye","tag-anamur","tag-eastern-mediterranean","tag-energy","tag-kyrenia","tag-natural-gas","tag-oruc-reis","tag-pipeline","tag-turkish-cyprus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128940,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128938\/revisions\/128940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishpost.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}