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(AFP) The US Congress voted Tuesday to lift a decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus, defying Turkey by seeking warmer ties at a time of renewed tensions. The Senate approved the measure as part of a ...
Turkey’s first drilling vessel, Fatih, starts conducting its first deep drilling in offshore Antalya on the county’s southern Mediterranean coast, Turkey on October 30, 2018. AFP PHOTOS Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades has made an ...
Russia expressed its readiness to cooperate with Turkey in its oil and gas explorations in the eastern Mediterranean. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told Anadolu Agency (AA) that Russian companies are considering cooperating with Turkey ...
Workers aboard the Fatih Turkey’s activities in the region are an indication of its weakness and isolation, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday. Speaking on OPEN TV, the Greek prime minister argued that ...
A Turkish military sign inside the “Forbidden Zone” of Varosha in Famagusta, Cyprus. Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images A ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become the latest pawn in the conflict surrounding Turkey’s drilling for ...
Amid growing concerns about the aggressive offshore drilling activities that are currently being carried out near the Cypriot coast by the Turkish government, the European Union is mulling putting Ankara’s accession chapters under discussion ahead ...
By Esra Aygin The Turkish Cypriot administration, financially dependent on Turkey, has not received any funding from Ankara for more than a year and is increasingly reliant on bank borrowing. The unprecedented stoppage is being ...
A drillship off the coast of Limassol, Cyprus. Photograph: Athanasios Gioumpasis/Getty Images Expected announcement by ExxonMobil of discovery off island’s south coast seen as potential game changer Helena Smith in Nicosia A drillship off the ...
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