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Turkey issued a new notice for its continued gas exploration and drillling inside the Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on Wednesday, further fueling tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Navigational Telex (Navtex) covers the area southwest of the island for...

Turkey reacted angrily on Monday to a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates denouncing “ongoing illegal Turkish activities” in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami...

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday regarding Ankara's fresh drilling intentions inside the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus. “This is yet another provocation which ignores appeals by the European Union and...

A report from the American website Bloomberg on Tuesday suggests that the EU has agreed to impose sanctions on two Turkish nationals in regard to the country's illegal actions inside the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus. The American...

Responding to Italy's recent remarks that the EU should sanction Turkey for its behavior inside Cyprus' maritime borders, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a long statement on Thursday which basically asked Cyprus to stop its drilling activities. 'We consider the...

The United Sates expressed its “deep concern” over Turkey’s drilling operations off Cyprus, including plans to dispatch the drill ship Yavuz south of the island, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday. “This provocative step raises tensions in the region....

High-ranking officials of the United Kingdom condemned on Tuesday Turkey's new provocative actions around and inside the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus. Asked to comment on the Turkish activity around the island by the state-run Cyprus News...

Cyprus called Turkey a ”pirate state” on Sunday after Ankara announced that the Turkish research vessel ”Yavuz” will soon conduct a new series of hydrocarbon research and drillings south of the island. The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Turkey...

The Turkish oil-and-gas drilling ship Fatih has started its operations off the coast of northeastern Cyprus, Turkish vice president Fuat Oktay said on Friday, despite warnings from European Union for Ankara to stand down. On Monday, the EU Foreign Affairs...

Claudio Descalzi, the Chief Executive of Italy's ENI oil company said on Thursday that he does not want to be the cause of war because of his company's activities off the coast of Cyprus. Speaking at a conference which took...

Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece condemned on Tuesday the ''unlawful and unacceptable'' bid by Turkey to drill inside waters where Cyprus has exclusive economic rights. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hosted a trilateral summit with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister...

Turkey issued a new Navigational Telex (Navtex) on Thursday night, making it known that they are reserving a maritime area in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for additional oil drilling operations. The new Navtex particularly concerns the movements of the...

The U.S. State Department urged Tukey to remove the drilling ship Yavuz from Cyprus' territorial waters, calling Ankara's activities "unlawful," the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reports. The United States considers the activities of the Turkish drillship Yavuz off the coast of...

Cyprus on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the authorities in the occupied part of the island to establish a cooperative mechanism to address sharing of hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus party leaders rejected the proposal in a meeting...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday morning, commenting on EU Foreign Ministers' decision to go ahead with the first sanctions against Turkey, in response to its illegal activities off the coast of Cyprus. ''The conclusions adopted by...