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UPDATE 2
Cyprus, Turkey spar over gas drilling
Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:32pm GMT
* Cyprus says to press on with plans to drill
* Turkey says action "not acceptable"
* Dispute comes at sensitive time in the region
By Michele Kambas
NICOSIA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Cyprus and Turkey exchanged heated words on Tuesday over Cypriot plans to drill for offshore oil and gas next month, adding to ill temper over peace talks on the divided island at a time when Turkey is also feuding with Israel.
Following remarks last week by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan affirming Ankara's readiness to deploy its navy across the Mediterranean, Cypriot President Demetris Christofias issued a statement denouncing Turkish "threats" and saying EU-member Cyprus would expect a response from its foreign allies.
A spokesman for Turkey's foreign ministry hit back by criticising the plan by the Greek Cypriot government to start exploiting oil and gas reserves before having reached a peace settlement with Turkish speakers whose administration in the north of the island is recognised only by Ankara.
The exchange of rhetoric over the undersea resources of the Levant Basin reflects long-standing territorial disputes over who controls the waters between Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Egypt.
It comes as efforts to narrow differences between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on ending the 37-year division of the island are stalled ahead of an October summit called by the United Nations, and as relations between Israel and Turkey have been soured by last year's Israeli raid on a Turkish ship off Gaza. .....
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7KD2CJ20110913
Cyprus, Turkey spar over gas drilling
Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:32pm GMT
* Cyprus says to press on with plans to drill
* Turkey says action "not acceptable"
* Dispute comes at sensitive time in the region
By Michele Kambas
NICOSIA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Cyprus and Turkey exchanged heated words on Tuesday over Cypriot plans to drill for offshore oil and gas next month, adding to ill temper over peace talks on the divided island at a time when Turkey is also feuding with Israel.
Following remarks last week by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan affirming Ankara's readiness to deploy its navy across the Mediterranean, Cypriot President Demetris Christofias issued a statement denouncing Turkish "threats" and saying EU-member Cyprus would expect a response from its foreign allies.
A spokesman for Turkey's foreign ministry hit back by criticising the plan by the Greek Cypriot government to start exploiting oil and gas reserves before having reached a peace settlement with Turkish speakers whose administration in the north of the island is recognised only by Ankara.
The exchange of rhetoric over the undersea resources of the Levant Basin reflects long-standing territorial disputes over who controls the waters between Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Egypt.
It comes as efforts to narrow differences between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on ending the 37-year division of the island are stalled ahead of an October summit called by the United Nations, and as relations between Israel and Turkey have been soured by last year's Israeli raid on a Turkish ship off Gaza. .....
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7KD2CJ20110913