Wouldn't You Know It, Even Turkey Is Now Threatening Cyprus
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On Thursday afternoon a high ranking Turkish official told Reuters that it is going to challenge any attempt by Cypriot officials to accelerate exploration for natural gas in a ploy to attract foreign investment and save its economy.
Ankara, which is obviously playing some one's game (our guess is the Brits and the Germans), as well as taking good advantage of a very weakened Greece, is now threatening to actually "block" the mining rights in Cyprus' EEZ.
"The development of such deposits only from Cyprus (Southern Cyprus) will not be accepted" the Turkish politician told the international news agency.Of course he did not go into details as well as did not explain how Turkey plans to do this, he just wanted to show that Turkey can bully anyone, at anytime it pleases because quite simply it obviously has the backing to do so. (Our guess again is the Germans, the Brits and the Americans)
"We are presently looking into all legal means ... We can possibly raise the issue at the EU level, but we will also use other, political and legal channels" he added.
Nonetheless, his statement comes at a time when these plots are becoming part of a package (domestic borrowing) that will be discussed at a rush Eurogroup meeting tonight (scheduled to have begun at 20:00).
(And you still believe that this crisis is about lazy Greeks and corrupt Cypriot bankers... Wake up its all about the oil and the control of energy reserves in the East Med. It is all about a bunch of imperialistic and greedy oligarchs in the North and in the West gaining energy for peanuts.)
Sources in Greek - defencenet, onlaert
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