{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-275/annex",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-275/annex.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/275",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/275 of 27 February 2020 amending Decision (CFSP) 2019/1894 concerning restrictive measures in view of Turkey's unauthorised drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-275",
  "path": "annex",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following persons are added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2019/1894:\nName\nIdentifying information\nReasons\nDate of listing\n‘1.\nMehmet Ferruh AKALIN\nDate of birth: 9.12.1960\nPassport No or ID: 13571379758\nNationality: Turkish\nGender: male\nMehmet Ferruh Akalin is Vice-President (Assistant General Manager) and member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). He is the head of TPAO's Exploration, R&D Centre and Information Technologies Departments.\nIn his capacity as TPAO Vice-President and head of its Exploration Department, Mehmet Ferruh Akalin is responsible for planning, directing and implementing TPAO's offshore hydrocarbon exploration activities. These include TPAO's drilling activities which have not been authorised by the Republic of Cyprus, as set out below.\nThose unauthorised drilling activities were carried out by:\n(a) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in the territorial sea of the Republic of Cyprus between July and September 2019;\n(b) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between October 2019 and January 2020;\n(c) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, in close proximity to its territorial sea, since November 2019;\n(d) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in a western area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, between May and November 2019.\nTPAO has also announced further planned drilling activities to be carried out, without the authorisation of the Republic of Cyprus, by the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in agreements with Egypt and Israel, between January and May 2020.\n27.2.2020\n2.\nAli Coscun NAMOGLU\nDate of birth: 27.11.1956\nPassport No or ID: 11096919534\nNationality: Turkish\nGender: male\nAli Coscun Namoglu is the Deputy Director of the Exploration Department of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO).\nIn this capacity, Ali Coscun Namoglu is involved in planning, directing and implementing TPAO's offshore hydrocarbon exploration activities. These include TPAO's drilling activities which have not been authorised by Republic of Cyprus as set out below.\nThose unauthorised drilling activities were carried out by:\n(a) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in the territorial sea of the Republic of Cyprus between July and September 2019;\n(b) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between October 2019 and January 2020;\n(c) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, in close proximity to its territorial sea, since November 2019;\n(d) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in a western area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, between May and November 2019.\nTPAO has also announced further planned drilling activities to be carried out, without the authorisation of the Republic of Cyprus, by the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in agreements with Egypt and Israel, between January and May 2020.\n27.2.2020’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/275/annex",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:22.514837+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}