Turkish politician: Cyprus is Turkish
Maral Aksener, head of the far right IYI (Good Party) spoke of a new offensive by the Turkish army in Cyprus, insinuating that the island nation is Turkish.
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Cyprus: New Turkish provocations in the buffer zone west of Nicosia
Six Greek-Cypriot farmers were stopped yet again by the Turkish occupying forces from going to their farms in the UN buffer zone near the village of Denia, west of Nicosia.
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Frankfurter Rundschau sees escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean
"The tension between Turkey and Cyprus for raw materials in the eastern Mediterranean is escalating," the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) observes in a report from Turkey, referring to the "arrival of ExxonMobile's Stena Icemax drilling machine at plot 10, 150 km southwest of the divided island."
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