The Turkish Cypriot ship Barbaros entered Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone on Thursday afternoon, moving in an area where hydrocarbon exploration is already taking place on behalf of Nicosia.

German media Handelsblatt notes a change in the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean, with the strengthening of US ties with Greece and Cyprus, as the tensions between Washington and Ankara over the S-400 escalating.

The cooperation between Greece, Cyprus, and Jordan strengthens the strategy for the prospect of peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at the beginning of the works of the 2nd Tripartite Summit of the three countries held in Amman.