Turks threatening to send warships to Cyprus

Reminiscent of the S-300 crisis

 

The direct threat that Turkey will use all means to stop the investigations of Cyprus Republic which wishes to detect natural gas sources, was uttered today by Turkish vice president and responsible for European Affairs, Mr. Egemen Bagis.

Approximately one month before the scheduled start by the American company Noble Energy in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, Mr. Bagis reiterated his claim that it is illegal for Cyprus to do anything concerning researching potential drilling sites in waters that do not belong to her.

Speaking to the Turkish newspaper “Zaman”, the vice president immediately referred to the S-300 Russian missile crisis. Turkey was threatening that if the Russian anti-missile system was installed in Cyprus, “Turkey would react without a limit” and had finally managed to transfer the S-300 counter-missile system to Crete.

Today, though, things are different. The US and Russia have publicly placed themselves for the right of the Cypriot government’s attempts to exploit natural resources found in the Cyprus EEZ.

Nevertheless, the Turkish government persists in threatening behaviors, as a diplomat interviewed by protothema.gr stated.

“It is illegal to research water that do not belong to them. Turkey will make use of all its rights according to international law and act accordingly. They know of the seriousness that Turkey possesses”, Mr. Bagis warned in a very inelegant way.

In “Zaman”’s editor’s observation on the investigations and research done in the past, when Turkish warships had been expedited to the region, the Vice president of Turkey stated: “That’s why we built our army and trained our soldiers”.