{"id":203,"date":"2019-02-22T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2019-02-22T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:13:14","slug":"turkey-to-start-oil-gas-drilling-off-cyprus-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/turkey-to-start-oil-gas-drilling-off-cyprus-in-coming-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to start oil, gas drilling off Cyprus \u2018in coming days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus in the coming days, state-owned news agency Anadolu reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying Thursday, a move that could stoke tensions with neighboring Cyprus and Greece. Turkey and the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government have overlapping claims of jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas research in the eastern Mediterranean, a region thought to be rich in natural gas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the coming days we will start drilling with two ships around Cyprus,\u201d Cavusoglu was quoted as saying in a speech to a business conference in western turkey\u2019s Aydin province. \u201cLet those who come to the region from far away, and their companies, see that nothing can be done in that region without us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNothing at all can be done in the Mediterranean without Turkey, we will not allow that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey launched its first drillship \u201cFatih\u201d in October to drill off the coast of Turkey\u2019s southern Antalya province. It said a second ship that it purchased would operate in the Black Sea, but was diverted to the Cyprus area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breakaway north Cyprus, supported by Turkey, says any offshore wealth also belongs to them, as partners in the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The island was divided in 1974 after a Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Countless peacemaking endeavors have failed, and offshore wealth has increasingly complicated peace talks, with Greek Cypriots saying the matter is not up for discussion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/turkey-to-start-oil-gas-drilling-off-cyprus-in-coming-days\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg 650w, https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop-190x122.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus in the coming days, state-owned news agency Anadolu reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying Thursday, a move that could stoke tensions with neighboring Cyprus and Greece. Turkey and the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government have overlapping claims of jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oil-gas","8":"category-people","9":"category-technology"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/762513_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pahFMi-3h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirius-energy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}