Turkish navy to escort offshore energy search
Turkey on Monday urged Cyprus and a US energy firm not to start an exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, warning otherwise it would launch a similar project protected by Turkish warships.
Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said if Cyprus does not heed Turkish calls to halt the planned drilling, his country would within a week send out its own research ship and the Turkish navy would "obviously" escort it. "This work will be carried out together with the (navy) escort," he said. "There will be no turning back on this issue." (AP)
