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EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on Saturday urged Turkey to reconsider plans to start exploratory drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus, already condemned as illegal by the European Union.

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.