According to media reports from Thrace, tensions prevailed throughout the Evros border region overnight. The police, reinforced by new forces, responded by throwing tear gas to try to intercept them.

Turkey is playing with fire after its seismographic vessel the ‘Babaros’ has apparently set a course for plot one of the Cypriot exclusive economic zone, an area where the Cypriot and Israeli militaries have planned training exercises with live ammunition.