Turkey steps up drilling activities around Cyprus

[TomSea]

Turkey steps up drilling activities around Cyprus
July 20, 2019

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey’s vice president said Saturday that his country is dispatching a survey vessel to join two drillships and another research boat to search for hydrocarbons off ethnically divided Cyprus.

Turkey will “never submit” to sanctions imposed by the European Union over its drilling in those waters and won’t hesitate to defend its energy rights and the rights of Turkish Cypriots, Vice President Fuat Oktay said.

The EU has said Turkey is breaching international law by drilling in waters where member nation Cyprus has exclusive economic rights.

Read more at: https://www.apnews.com/353740b02a374fb0be29711c15a9f3ce

Pretty brazen breaking of international law, I vaguely remember the civil war on Cyprus, I thought it was pretty bad.

[PeteS in CA]

The EU has said Turkey is breaching international law by drilling in waters where member nation Cyprus has exclusive economic rights.

And the mighty EU is going to do what? Refuse to invite Turks to diplomats' cookie-pushing parties?