"Without being provocative, there is the appropriate legal, political and diplomatic answer to any action of Turkey," Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias late on Tuesday said in an interview with SKAI TV.

The Turkish government circulated an informal document accusing Greece of harbouring “terrorists” and “coup sympathisers”, according to mignatiou.com website.

Cyprus's newly-discovered wealth of offshore natural gas could boost the prospects for a peace settlement on the divided island, President Nicos Anastasiades has said a few days after Nicosia said it had picked Eni, Total and ExxonMobil for three exploration licenses.