From the Depths of the Sea to the Heights of Space: Turkey’s Expanding Power
by Bercan Tutar
Turkey’s nine-month seismic survey in the Eastern Mediterranean alarmed Israel by mapping 10,000 km of seabed. Reports say it went beyond energy exploration, exposing submarine cables and critical networks — effectively encircling Israel’s strategic lifeline.
Turkey’s nine-month, 10,000-km seismic survey in the Eastern Mediterranean — which reportedly mapped submarine cable routes and other critical infrastructure — has alarmed Israel and parts of the international media, and when combined with Turkey’s recent defence advances and maritime agreements with Libya and Syria, it risks shifting control of both surface and undersea Mediterranean routes toward Ankara. Observers say this gives Turkey strategic leverage over Israel’s lifelines and could precipitate a major geopolitical rupture, while Turkey insists it is fully prepared — militarily, cyber-and space-wise — to respond if necessary
In recent times, media around the world — especially in Europe and the United States — publish reports, analyses and news almost daily about our country’s advances in national defence technology. The causes and consequences of Turkey’s dazzling successes are examined. While our friends rejoice, our enemies — particularly Greek and Jewish lobbies — are in a panic.
They know that even if Israel wins the battles, it will lose this war because of the Turkish factor. For the first time, Zionists are moving toward a major defeat. The fiasco in Doha is one sign of this. With Doha, the political and military mobilization of the Islamic world under Turkey’s leadership could create the largest geopolitical rupture in history for Israel and its Western backers.
For Western Zionists the danger is enormous. That is why they will either rein Israel in, or cut the strings entirely and precipitate its destruction. Either way, it would be catastrophic for the West and for Israel’s apparatus of genocide.
Indeed, Turkey has demonstrated that it possesses the hardware to virtually paralyse Israel. Israel — which, when fully encircled, could reportedly hold out for only 13 days against Iran — stands no chance against Turkey. Even Israel’s military experts, diplomats, politicians and its most hawkish columnists implicitly admit this. Turkey’s entry into the field would trigger a far more serious and systemic destruction for Israel and the West.
At the end of July, Israel’s deputy director of space research and military strategist Shay Gal wrote that “TRNC is not only a problem for the Greeks but also for us.” He argued that Turkey’s placement of armed drones and missiles on bases in Cyprus gives it intelligence over all of Israel’s military and economic assets and the capacity to neutralize all targets in a crisis.
On 2 September, in another piece published in Israel Hayom, he wrote: “Erdoğan wants uninterrupted control from the Mediterranean to Bab el-Mandeb. He wants dominance over shipping routes and regional strategy.”
Zionist media now report that, with the maritime accords signed with Libya and Syria, control of both the surface of the Mediterranean and the submarine fibre-optic cables that link Israel to Europe has effectively passed to Turkey — and that Israel’s trade, 98% of which depends on the Mediterranean, is therefore under Turkish dominance.
That helps explain why our opposition now asks, “What are we looking for with drilling ships in the Mediterranean? If there is no oil or gas, why are surveys still ongoing? Missile tests are scaring the fish!”
Our seismic survey vessels spent nine months mapping 10,000 kilometres of the seabed in the Eastern Mediterranean — and that operation has set off a major alarm in Israel, just as it has among our own opposition. According to Israeli and Greek media, Turkey’s research did more than search for oil and gas: it effectively X-rayed Israel’s submarine cables that connect it to the world, along with electrical and other critical networks. Turkey mapped the submarine cable routes linking Israel to Europe. In short, it identified and encircled the fragile strategic choke-point that is Israel’s lifeline.
In short, our country is ready for anything. We have taken — and continue to take — every necessary measure. Preparations are not only in the air, on land and at sea, but also in cyberspace, space and undersea. Turkey’s moves over the Mediterranean — especially via Cyprus and Libya, above and below the sea — have the potential to cripple Israel. Indeed, even U.S. President Donald Trump warned “Gaza butcher” Netanyahu to “be reasonable” toward Turkey for good reason: if Israel is not reasonable, not even the United States could save it from Turkey’s wrath.
