{"id":34251,"date":"2018-05-15T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34251"},"modified":"2018-05-15T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:42:22","slug":"erdogan-cyprus-oil-drilling-is-a-security-threat-to-east-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34251","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Cyprus Oil Drilling Is A Security Threat To East Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erdogan: Cyprus Oil Drilling Is A Security Threat To East Mediterranean<\/a><\/h3>\n\"Erdogan\"<\/picture>\n
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The Eastern Mediterranean will face a security threat<\/a> should Cyprus continue its unilateral operations of offshore oil and gas exploration in the region, Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said in a speech at think tank Chatham House in London on Monday.<\/p>\n

Turkey, which recognizes the northern Turkish Cypriot government and doesn\u2019t have diplomatic relations with the internationally recognized government of Cyprus, claims that part of the Cyprus offshore area is under the jurisdiction of Turkish Cypriots or Turkey.<\/p>\n

Tensions in the area flared up earlier this year, after Turkish Navy vessels threatened<\/a> in February to sink a drilling ship that oil major Eni had hired to explore for oil and gas offshore Cyprus\u2014the divided island whose northern part is run by Turkish Cypriots and is recognized only by Turkey.<\/p>\n

Weeks before that, Turkey\u2019s Navy had blocked the drilling vessel that Eni had hired. Eni\u2019s chief executive Claudio Descalzi had said<\/a> that the row is a diplomatic one and out of the company\u2019s control. Descalzi said that Eni would probably move the blocked drilling ship, but would not pull out of its project in Cyprus.<\/p>\n

While the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus said that its \u201cgoal is to fully explore Cyprus\u2019s hydrocarbon potential,\u201d Turkey claims that the drilling operations are \u2018unilateral\u2019 and claims that part of the exclusive economic zone of Cyprus is under Turkish jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, just last week, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak said that Turkey would begin<\/a> its first solo oil and gas deepwater drilling in the Mediterranean before the end of this summer.<\/p>\n

Turkey has strongly opposed what it describes as \u201cunilateral\u201d drilling offshore the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus, and Turkish Cypriots argue that the offshore oil and gas resources of the island should be exploited jointly to ensure equal rights for both parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erdogan: Cyprus Oil Drilling Is A Security Threat To East Mediterranean The Eastern Mediterranean will face a security threat should Cyprus continue its unilateral operations of offshore oil and gas exploration in the region, Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said in a speech at think tank Chatham House in London on Monday. Turkey, which recognizes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[2016,1019,5332,1908,14603,818],"class_list":["post-34251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-cyprus","tag-oil-drilling","tag-oilprice-com","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-tsvetana-paraskova","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34252,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34251\/revisions\/34252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}