Cyprus Threatens to Block 'Bully' Turkey’s EU Entry Bid over Gas Row

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Cyprus Threatens to Block 'Bully' Turkey’s EU Entry Bid over Gas Row. (Fars).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Cyprus said it will block any progress in Turkey’s ongoing talks to join the EU.

Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides also said President Nicos Anastasiades will also lodge a formal complaint over a Turkish gas search in waters where the EU member has already licensed companies to drill, AP reported.

Anastasiades suspended reunification talks earlier this month after Ankara announced its gas search plans.

Turkey doesn’t recognize Cyprus as a state and opposes its offshore energy search.

Update: Cyprus to block all of Turkey's EU negotiating chapters

Cyprus will block all of Turkey's European Union negotiating chapters in response to an alleged violation of its exclusive economic zone by a Turkish exploration vessel, a government spokesman said here Tuesday.

Cyprus has said that Turkish seismic data vessel Barbaros on Monday entered a marine block in which Italian-South Korean consortium ENI-Kogas started drilling for natural gas earlier this month, some 74 km south of the Cypriot city of Larnaca.

Cypriot authorities said the vessel proceeded to a neighboring block on Tuesday.

"We cannot consent to the opening of any new chapters under the current circumstances," government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides told journalists after a session of the National Council, which is made up of parliamentary party leaders and advises the president.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had announced the country would no longer participate in UN-brokered negotiations aimed at reunifying the island. Hmmm.....I expect 'Buuly' Turkey to Invade the rest of non occupied Cyprus and make it totally part of the 'NEW Neo Ottoman Empire"
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