Cyprus: Turkey’s new gas drilling bid ‘severe escalation’

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is condemning Turkey’s new attempt to drill for gas in waters where European energy companies are already licensed to conduct a hydrocarbons search as a “severe escalation” of Ankara’s illegal actions, and is vowing to fight the move.
The government on Friday denounced the arrival of a Turkish drillship in an area licensed to France’s Total and Italy’s Eni as “utterly provocative and aggressive behavior” in defia