Saturday, January 4, 2020

Israel, Greece And Cyprus Sign A Gas Pipeline Deal Over Turkey's Objections





Al Jazeera: Greece, Israel, Cyprus sign gas pipeline deal, angering Turkey

Accord creates new tensions between Greece and Turkey as Ankara says EastMed project cannot proceed without its consent.

The leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus met in Athens on Thursday to sign a deal for an undersea pipeline that would carry gas from new offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe - a move that has riled Turkey.

The 2,000-km (1,243-mile) EastMed pipeline is intended to provide an alternative gas source for energy-hungry Europe, which is currently largely dependent on supplies from Russia and the Caucasus region.

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WNU Editor: This is why Turkey is against this deal .... Turkish Cyprus describes EastMed agreement as 'provocative attempt to exclude Turkish Cypriots' (Hurriyet Daily News)

More News On Israel, Greece And Cyprus Signing A Gas Pipeline Deal Over Turkey's Objections

New Pipeline Deal Gives Europe Access To Eastern Mediterranean Gas Reserves, Angering Turkey -- Forbes
Greece, Israel & Cyprus ink EastMed gas pipeline deal amid Turkish outcry -- RT
East Mediterranean gas pipeline project can't succeed, Ankara says -- Hurriyet Daily News
Israel, Greece and Cyprus sign gas pipeline deal -- DW
Greece, Cyprus, Israel Sign EastMed Gas Pipeline Deal To Ease Reliance On Russia -- Eurasia Review
Is Turkey Trying to Sabotage Massive New Israel-Cyprus-Greece EastMed Gas Deal? -- Ariel Ben Solomon, Al Gemeiner/JNS.org

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Turkey did not learn from WW1.

Jac said...

Is it possible that "Erdogan the Great" would be, one day, happy of something ?

Anonymous said...

This is the crux of it, from the Hurriyet Daily.

"a statement issued by Hami Aksoy, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, late Jan. 2.

“We bring this fact once more to the attention of the international community,” he said, reiterating that Turkey is the most commercially feasible and secure route for the utilization of the natural resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and their transfer to the consumer markets in Europe."

Anonymous said...

&:25 is a red herring. We are talking about extraction and property rights not transport.

Bob Huntley said...

,,,

Anonymous said...

And yet it moves