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Associated Press

Turkey’s vice-president said on Saturday his country is dispatching a survey vessel to join two drillships and another research boat to search for hydrocarbons off ethnically divided Cyprus.
Turkey will “never submit” to sanctions imposed by the European Union over its drilling in those waters and will not hesitate to defend its energy rights and the rights of Cyprus’ ethnic Turks, Vice-President Fuat Oktay said.

The EU has said Turkey is breaching international law by drilling in waters where member nation Cyprus has exclusive rights.
Oktay was speaking at celebrations marking the 45th anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the Mediterranean island nation that followed a coup mounted by supporters of a union with Greece.
In a letter to the Turkish Cypriot president commemorating the anniversary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his military would not hesitate to act again in Cyprus if necessary.
“No one should doubt that the glorious Turkish military, which does not consider Cyprus any different from its own homeland, will not hesitate, if needed, to once again take the step it took 45 years ago when it comes to the Turkish Cypriots’ lives and safety,” Erdogan wrote.

But Erdogan said Turkey would also work for a “fair and lasting resolution” in Cyprus.
The island nation’s internally recognised government is on the Greek Cypriot side.


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The European Union has said Ankara is breaching international law by drilling in waters where member nation Cyprus has exclusive rights