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Cyprus oil drilling plans are ‘provocation’
ANKARA : Turkey said on Saturday plans by Cyprus to begin gas exploration in the Mediterranean amounted to "provoc
ANKARA: Turkey said on Saturday plans by Cyprus to begin gas exploration in the Mediterranean amounted to "provocation" and if drilling went ahead Turkey would consider carrying-out its own offshore surveys with northern Cyprus.
"If this fait accompli continues we have steps of our own that we will take northern Cyprus can carry-out the same explorations with Turkey and TPAO," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference, referring to Turkey's state-owned oil and gas exploration company.
Copyright Reuters, 2011
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