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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Turkey renews threat against Cyprus offshore gas exploration

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday renewed a threat against the government of Cyprus' efforts to search for offshore gas around the ethnically divided island. Turkey opposes what it says are Greek Cypriots' "unilateral" efforts to search for gas, saying they infringe on the rights of breakaway Turkish Cypriots to the island's resources. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said during a joint news conference with Tufan Erhurman, the prime minister of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state, that "provocative activities will be met with the appropriate response.


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