Cyprus, Israel and Turkey Near “High Noon” Standoff Over Med’s Natural Gas

There’s a lot more for southern Cyprus to be alarmed about these days concerning its commitment to explore for natural gas offshore. First of all, there is the environmental factor dealing with undersea drilling off Cyprus, which could be damaging for an island so dependent on industries like tourism. There is also the acute water shortage issue, making Greek Cyprus heavily dependent on desalination for fresh wat....

But the most critical, as well as most dangerous problem that southern Cyprus may now be facing is an increasing belligerency from Turkey, which controls one third of this island; and whose proxy government there, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is telling the Greek Cypriots that it could become “very uncomfortable... if they go ahead and do the drilling without the TRNC being able to participate as well. 

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The danger that the Greek Cypriots face is centered around the threats being made by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan, who is now threatening to station squadrons of Turkish F-16s in the TRNC that could be used against Greek controlled Cyprus should he consider it “necessary to do so”. International political and military strategists are looking at Turkey’s policies as “a redrawing of the strategic terrain of the eastern Mediterranean,” according to James Ker-Lindsay, a specialist on Turkey and Cyprus at the London School of Economics, and mentioned in a recent article in Bloomberg.

 

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