Turkey bullying over gas find, says Cyprus
16 February, 2012
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Cyprus has accused Turkey of using "bullying behaviour" in some of its harshest criticism yet of its old foe, locked in a decades-old standoff over the division of the island and recent natural gas finds.
Gas production is set to climb in the eastern Mediterranean following the discovery of huge offshore reserves between Israel, Cyprus adn Lebanon that have sparked competing maritime claims from Turkey.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato KozakouMarcoullis told Israeli Army Radio in an interview that Turkey had held numerous and "provocative" military exercises in the eastern Mediterranean over the past few months.
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