Athens-Sana
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confirmed that the Turkish regime is violating Cyprus' sovereign rights to explore for gas near the southern coast of the island.
"The latest moves by Turkey are a blatant violation of Cyprus' sovereign rights," Mitsotakis was quoted as saying on Thursday during a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The Turkish drilling vessel, Yavuz, stopped yesterday about 51 nautical miles southwest of Cyprus, the second Turkish ship to dock near the coast of Cyprus in recent months. Oil and gas for Italian and French companies.
The regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in a message broadcast last May on the International Maritime Messaging Service Navtex intends to conduct gas exploration until last September in a region of the Mediterranean Sea Cyprus confirms that it is within the exclusive economic zone of the island.
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