The Turkish drillship Fatih, formerly DeepSea Metro II, is close to Antalya in Turkey on with the intention of heading at some point soon for the Eastern Mediterranean to begin deep-sea drilling, possibly close to or inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Observers expect the drillship to remain in Antalya until after the Turkish elections on June 24. According to Politis, its sources said any drilling actions by Turkey in the region could trigger tensions, not only around Cyprus but also in Israel, Egypt and Lebanon.
It said, the arrival of the Fatih, (‘Conqueror’ in Turkish), in the region, and even the ship’s renaming to honour Istanbul’s conqueror Ottoman Sultan Fatih Sultan Mehmet, was designed to serve the election campaign of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Politis said after June 24, the Fatih is expected to move to Cyprus’s EEZ but where exactly was not yet clear, it said.
Turkey, which says it is protecting the rights of Turkish Cypriots, claims parts of various blocks in Cyprus’ EEZ, saying the areas in question form part of its continental shelf. The claim includes part of blocks 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7, to the south and southwest of the island.
The breakaway regime in the north of the island lays claim through its own ‘exclusive economic zone’, which in effect says that half of Cyprus’ EEZ belongs to it, including blocks 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12 and 13.
Block 10, awarded to US giant ExxonMobil, which is due to drill in the coming months, is not contested by Turkey.
Back in February, Turkish warships off Cyprus physically blocked a drillship leased by Italian energy company ENI for two weeks in block 3, forcing it to eventually leave the region.
On Monday, Turkish Cypriot press quoted General Hulusi Akar, chief of the Turkish General Staff, as saying Ankara would like to find solutions to problems with its neighbours. He referred to the Aegean, the Mediterranean and Cyprus and claimed:
“Turkey is in favour of the solution of the existing problems in the Aegean in an amicable manner within the framework of international law and good neighbourly relations,” he said.
“In the meantime, the necessary activities are being carried out with determination with the aim of protecting our country’s rights and interests deriving from the international law and agreements in our seas and mainly the Aegean and the Mediterranean and in Cyprus,” he said. Turkey is not a signatory to the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
Turkey’s first drillship set off to the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the country’s energy minister announced that Ankara would spud an offshore well this summer.
The Fatih left a port in the gulf of Izmit last week, plotting a destination in the Mediterranean off Antalya, in the sea between Turkey and Cyprus.
Speaking at the farewell ceremony, Turkey’s energy minister Berat Albayrak said the ship would be carrying out its first drill at a depth of 2600 metres off Antalya.
“We are going forward into the future with greater security and with revolutionary steps in the energy field, Albayrak said, according to a translation of his remarks.
He said also that the drillship would be joined by a second vessel.
The Turkish survey ship Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa has carried out seismic surveys for hydrocarbon reserves between Cyprus and Turkey since early April.
Turkey has sought to block gas exploration by Cyprus, deploying warships and conducting military drills inside Cyprus’ EEZ, drawing criticism from Greece, the European Union and the United States.
248 Comments
repulsewarrior
June 6, 2018 at 03:56Turkey is entering into the great unknown, not from courage, not from Grace, but by choice; a Turkish crew will practice drilling first, never having done it before, and those who will guide them will be busy learning too, sort of like preparing to go to space. Good luck to them i say, lest they screw up and spoil the sea for all and everything that finds some pleasure from it.
…while the so called TRNC ignores UNCLOS and the relationship that has been developed by neighbouring countries, it has no credibility seeking some recognition in these affairs. Turkey’s illegal occupation, is just that to Cypriots, Turkish or Greek, as it is to the rest of the world. She drills alone for no good reason, Turkey is welcome to join the rest who choose, more safely, more rationally, working together.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 19:44Am trying to work out the point of your comment and why you think TC’s think Turkey being in TRNC is occupation. It is not, it is providing security and peace that has allowed TC to live a life without fear or persecution and to achieve self determination. As a TC this is what I see. Could things be better, yes they could but I would not compromise securities for anything.
repulsewarrior
June 6, 2018 at 20:13Eroglu was not voted President, and the Legislature, with the most recent election, as a majority does not respect those (Eroglu’s) views. While many accept that they are “Turks” it seems that about half, (like in the south), despite decades of political dysfunction remain Cypriot, Turkish or Greek.
Cyprus whole remains the best solution if security is important. If “Turks” have anything to learn from “Greeks”, in Cyprus, it is that the “motherland” or “fatherland” is not reliable, they work for their self interest alone. Erdogan has gone so far to say that “Cypriot Turks” are no better than nuisances, parasites, or, like servant-slaves. While there is a reason, and a good reason for Cypriots to fear their extremists, kept apart they are impotent to defend themselves against “them”.
Cypriots exist (few as they seem to be); not “Greeks” and not “Turks”.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 20:34Do you really believe that after self-government for for 3 generations (55 years) a united federal Cyprus is possible. I really struggle with that concept because every time I hear a GC politician, or church leaders or ultra nationalist I am even more convinced that it will not happen. Whilst I understand the objectives behind the unjust embargo’s, it has, after 44 years, had the opposite effect and further alienated the communities. Normalising relationships will take decades even if there was good will initiatives. The added impact of the embargo’s has been the galvanising of the relationship between Turkey and TRNC and TRNC’s dependence on Turkey.
repulsewarrior
June 7, 2018 at 03:43…i understand your fear, my fear is the same, there is a “Turk” or a “Greek” out there looking for “revenge”, for their own immediate satisfaction ready to do horrible things; what makes you think you are secure amongst “Them”, unless you become “Them”?
…if Cyprus remains divided as it is, “Turkish”, and not “Turkish”, for “Turkishness” Turkey will be divided. There will be no Peace, in Cyprus, there will be no Peace in Turkey either. Cypriots will live unfree, so too Turks in Turkey, who are not “Turks”.
The question remains, not what Turkey can do for Turkish Cypriots, it is what Turkish Cypriots can do for Turkey; “Turk” or Turkish. Hope for who?
(frankly, look at a map, if Cyprus only exists as Erdogan would have it; it is not just Cyprus he is after. “This” does not stop, not stopped here.)
Niko
June 5, 2018 at 15:05and what will turkey do after the drilling? They simply do not have the resource to extract and commercialise the gas on their own. Not when the Turkish Lira is falling like there is not tomorrow.
This is just a political play the same as all the other propaganda he feeds these uneducated Turks that actually believe his BS.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:53They are sheep.
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:10there are enough funds to develop a well if exploration is successful. hold on to your sour grapes.
not every country is as bankrupt as greece and south cyprus.
turkishcypriot
June 5, 2018 at 13:04A common sense advice to our neighbors in the South:
Recognize TRNC and start working with the Turkish Cypriots on the hydrocarbon project for common good. Have good neighborly relationship with the regional power Turkey. Otherwise stay with your status quo which is not taking you anywhere.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 13:33You are so far gone its untrue, you are have nothing to barter with, its been 46 years and you have no chance of anyone giving you recogntion and no chance of the ROC doing that, come back when you put your stupid unaceptable demands away and maybe we might agree to a peace solution if you dont like that stay in your shoebox, those are your options.
turkishcypriot
June 5, 2018 at 13:44South Cyprus hasn’t got any other choice. What I am advising inevitably will happen. It is a question of time. You left yourselves no others cards to play with.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 01:19Again with the 46 years, what happened in 1972 that is so significant for you. I don’t even need to read your comments anymore, as soon I see your avatar I know its the same old drivel like ‘shoe box’, ‘not recognized’. You missed a few though, no ‘Anatolian’ or ‘native TC’s or even the 500m sub from your regional power. I wonder if anyone takes your repetitive drivel seriously at all. Please use some new materials you are sooo boring your comments put me to sleep. At least in the comment above you were not cursing and swearing old man
Dogmeat
June 5, 2018 at 15:28Good comment
turkishcypriot
June 5, 2018 at 16:39Thank you. We are trying to make their life easier, but the GC mentality is in the way. They will never change.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:52Rubbish comment Dumbo doggie.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 18:17I thought it was a reasonable comment;
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 18:22antlion you would.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 19:08you can not deny the guys statement is wrong or unreasonable,
Just my un-Bias view
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 19:52It doesn’t matter what the RoC does, Turkey will NEVER leave Cyprus, you are a fool if you think that they will.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 01:10They can stay, I have no problem with the Turks, I have a problem with elam supporters like you
Cizre Feb2016
June 6, 2018 at 08:51Dumbo you always label people whom tell the truth with the old Elam tag. TCs are the epitome of ultra neo Nazism, living in an apartheid pseudo state. You are a Bozkutlar of the highest order a fascist racist piece of filth, trolling on forums for money. You are a vile and disgusting person.
Dogmeat
June 6, 2018 at 06:31Hi Leo new badge? 😂
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 01:09Totally agree
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 12:39By kenan Malik The Guardian (and this is just a snippet)
The degree of repression in Turkey since Erdoğan imposed a state of emergency after the failed coup of July 2016 has been extraordinary. It is estimated that more than 150,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs, including almost 6,000 academics and about 4,500 judges and prosecutors. Up to 137,000 people have been detained. Almost 200 media outlets have been shut down and 100,000 websites blocked. Of all journalists imprisoned worldwide, nearly a third are in TurkeyIn Erdoğan’s warped world, even intellectuals are now ‘terrorists’
The aim is to expunge the slightest criticism of the government and its policies. And it is working. “Fear and self-censorship are like smoke,” a senior academic told Human Rights Watch. “It seeps everywhere and it gets thicker every day. We cannot breathe anymore. We now don’t only think twice, but three or four times before we write or say something,” added a student.
Last week, Erdoğan came to Britain on a state visit, meeting both the prime minister and the Queen. Britain sees Turkey as an important partner in the post-Brexit world; Turkey finds in Britain a key ally in the “fight against terrorism”. Britain has sold more than $1bn of weapons to Ankara since the failed 2016 coup. In a joint press conference, May spoke of the need for “democratic values” to be upheld but sympathised with a leader facing “the extraordinary pressures of a failed coup and Kurdish terrorism”. Erdoğan insisted that all those arrested had been “terrorists”. In a world in which terrorism has become the catch-all justification for mass repression, Erdoğan has a free hand to pursue his policies.
Meanwhile, the victims of those policies continue to pile up: the dead, the imprisoned, the dismissed, the voiceless. In a fragmented world, in which social change is often driven more by inchoate rage than reasoned argument, a figure such as Kavala is indispensable. His imprisonment is the imprisonment, too, of hope.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 12:45The domestic political situation in Turkey is well known to all readers here. Your obsession to quote articles instead of reflecting on the subject on hand is sick. Nobody in this forum spends time to list all the things that are wrong with your Greek motherland, firmly in communist hands.
Turkey is more than its leaders who come and go. National interests supersede mortal persons. Turkey will continue to defend her rights regardless of who is in power.
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 14:01every country has it’s sensitivities:
(1) Knife and Gun crime in London on the serious rise, and Brexit due to dip the UK back 20 years.
(2) 50 million people on the Poverty line in the USA, and growing fast! Racism, deep rooted hatred across different rational groups etc etc
(3) Greece refusing to recognise Turkish people in Salonika, instead referring to them as “Greek Muslims”…so blind. A serious corrupt government, and a failing population and economy with no future of economic property.
The list goes on….but the Guardian likes to pick on countries like India, China, Turkey etc…….why? It’s obvious! The world is changing in a direction that makes the WEST feel very vulnerable and uncomfortable!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:51Keep on topic.
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:14comments are free here, whether you like them or not.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 01:23You are right the power balance is moving away from the traditional to the emerging markets and this is evident every passing year.
Sonar
June 5, 2018 at 16:13Apart from blacking Turkeys name, whats the purpose of your post. This man dose not bluff. We little old Cyprus have got to find a way to live amicable with our neighbours
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:51In your dreams.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 18:06Cyprus does live amicably with all neighbors! It is evident and obvious that Turkey do not and do not cease in trying to create problems in the region!
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:13south cyprus has no other choice but to grin and bear it, having lost half the island.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 18:30Bitter!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 18:40Appears rather happy.
Girneli
June 6, 2018 at 01:21Erdogan to one side, what you need to know is that Turkey does not procrastinate, it does.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 12:30By Xander Snyder – Geo Political Futures
To date, Cyprus has been a weak state, and Turkey’s primary concern in the Mediterranean has been its longtime rival Greece. If Cyprus were to open its doors to Western Europe to take advantage of its newfound resources, Turkey would then be faced with a situation in which countries far more powerful than Greece have vested economic interests in the island that depend on Turkey’s exclusion.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 12:35Another copy & paste from an individual nobody who dreams of “newfound resources” that are nowhere established as commercially viable. Keep on dreaming with him.
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 12:37“IT’S” new found resources……there you go again dismissing Turkish Cypriot rights. When are you going to understand? Shame. This is what Cavusoglu was saying about the failure of Greek Cypriot mentality!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:49TCs don’t have any rights you dumbo, how many times must I tell you?
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:15leo, think of something better than being a dumbo
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 12:12The Guardian:
“There is a real danger of a Turkish confrontation with international drill ships,” said John Roberts, energy security specialist at the Atlantic Council. “The Turkish government does not recognise the government of Cyprus in the way the rest of the world does and that means its does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus has an exclusive economic [maritime] zone. If it pursues this argument to its logical end, it will use force to keep uninvited visitors at bay, which would put it at odds not only with the EU but partners in Nato.”
Turkey it seems is digging its own grave and it looks like its very deep!
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:20And that statement gives you the Luxury of Comfort!!
As if anyone is going to fight the ROCs battles!!lol
Turkey has been permitted to search for Resources around Cyprus by the TRNC,
End of and get use to it!!
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 12:25The Guardian likes to fuel bias views as normal by dismissing the true nature and reasoning of Turkey’s actions. Let me spell it out to South Cyprus. A Comprehensive agreement based on Two Founding States has been rejected by the Greek Cypriots for over 50 years. Due to this, Turkey and the TRNC has come to the conclusion that the status quo; in that the Greek Cypriot temporary status of it’s hijacked “Republic of Cyprus” cannot and will not remain as the owners of the entire island. Until South Cyprus realises this situation and the UN offers the TRNC a temporary, interim, solution based on the removal of the embargoes, the only way Turkey sees any change in policy is another flash-point, which will literally bring the island to standstill. The Greek Cypriots have had it easy until now thinking that they can do what they want, but that is soon to change. Like in 1955, 1959, 1963, 1974, unless the Greek Cypriots are brought to some kind of flash-point, relying on the UN, and now the EU, to solve the Cyprus issue is politics gone by and the TRNC will soon be placed on the map. The days of wasting time and applying time-wasting political manoeuvres by the Greek Cypriot administration has been exhausted and its repercussions will be felt by the new Turkey of today.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:44How can a turk minority that were dumped here by the other Turks be co owners or co founders?
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:16leo, read the constitution.
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 18:23Dumbo which constitution, the RoC’s or the pseudo-states?
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:14Leo is just trolling, that all he does and never adds any value to any debate. He froths at the mouth every time he sees something contrary to his Sunday school lessons he reacts, like a spoilt child
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 12:25You must really be desperate to cling on to statements of individuals that carry no weight. At least Mr Roberts understands that Turkey will defend her rights.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:48Turkey have no rights dumbo, they are made up, like everything else concerning Turkey from killing it’s own citizens (Ankara massacre) so that it can have an excuse to invade another country and steal it’s land, to stealing the TCs drilling rights so that they can use there might to steal the RoC’s resources.
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:16why do you keep changing your silly names?
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 18:24Dumbo why do you keep changing your silly names, lovely rum,
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 11:50As I have said many times over, it’s the Greek Cypriot government’s negative mentality against the Turkish Cypriot state which gives Turkey the international power (under the treaty of Guarantee and Alliance) in the context of Protecting Turkish Cypriot interests. Until your [South Cyprus] administration relaxes its hatred of of anything Turkish Cypriot and retreats on its objections on North Cyprus’ isolation and embargoes, Turkey will and exercise its rights under the Original 1960 Constitution with whatever it wishes.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:02The worry for the native Tcs is not from the Gcs, but Turkey but Elcil sums it as it is.
“It is not only that Turkish Cypriots have become a minority in their
own country, they are now trying to replace the secular education system
with religious schools,” said Elcil. “Over 400 imams have been sent
here as missionaries to target the children of settlers. Instead of
English, lessons in Arabic and the Qur’an are being taught. Religion has
never been a point of conflict in Cyprus, nationalism, yes, but not
this.”
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:24Handkerchief is on route for you,
Thank you so much for being Considerate to the TCs will feel Total Gratitude to your thoughtful thoughts,
Can we get the Violin out now!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:39Antlion you t…..r.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:25Here we go again….
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 12:27Here’s a secret…..the Turkish Cypriots regard themselves as “Turkish” first….thus, they are happy living under Turkey than as a minority under a corrupt Greek Cypriot administration. Try to understand this .ROC as that’s your downfall. We love Turkey, like how Gibraltar and the Falklands love the UK!
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:28Bang On!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 12:32Here’s another piece of information and not a secret:
The Turkish Cypriot United Cyprus Party (BKP) is calling for measures to be taken over the expansion of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the north after it opened a new office in Lefka.
According to Kibris newspaper, BKP leader Izzet Izcan said the intensive expansion of the AKP party in the ‘TRNC’ had taken on “threatening dimensions” and constituted a threat for the Turkish Cypriot community’s identity and existence.
“After the opening of the AKP central office, AKP has started opening district offices and also youth offices,” said Izcan.
He called on the ‘government’ and the other political parties to clarify their stance towards the “political organisation of the AKP-MHP coalition in the TRNC”.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:40If your going to comment, then use facts and not BS, what I hate most from you Turks( not Cypriots) you try and justify everything with either Lies or make up stories, you wrote “they are happy living under Turkey than as a minority” whereby people with proffesional know how about Cyprus differ from your dribble, Unless you an expert and telling they are wrong
“It is not only that Turkish Cypriots have become a minority in their
own country, they are now trying to replace the secular education system
with religious schools,” said Elcil.
“Unless there is a solution soon, there will be no Turkish Cypriots to
have a solution with,” said James Ker-Lindsay, a veteran Cyprus expert.
“Northern Cyprus will simply become a Turkish province – a place of
mosques and settlers. We are in a race against the clock.”
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:53Sounds like the ROC is racing against the clock!!
You been running for the ROC since 1974!
Nothing like a Continues marathon!lol
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:59No answer to the experts huh? typical Turk reply deflect the truth.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 13:22The truth is your in Fear;
Happy Nightmares!!lol
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 13:25You need a insight as to how things are, I do not give a toss if the native Cypriots are wiped in the North, its something they have to deal with, if they are happy being part of a new breed of Cypriot thats is thier problem, but one thing we do not fear is you anatolians, you own nothing inthe North and Turkey over years will have a massive downfall , its all down to time mate, you anatolians are the ones in fear of us
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 14:30If you don’t “give a toss” quit your barking and go find a new hobby!! You say you don’t give “a toss ” but yet your here almost daily repeating the same trash over and over and over again!
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 18:14Don’t worry about us TC being wiped out, Let us worry about this issue!
Why do you argue with everyone if your not in fear?
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:18You are a wannabe armchair warrior that fled to London and never came back, barking from the safety of your UK home. The facts are that TRNC is here to stay and there is nothing you or your ilk can do about it, so what do you do, you bark. The problem is that no one is listening
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 12:04Absolutely right
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:11Wrong, below sums it up to the tee
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 12:15Wrong, you have no idea. Spouting the same rubbish regardless of the article is not a response, its just repetitive drivel. Comment on the article then try challenging me
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:17Do you have screws loose in your peanut brain? this are not my words but a fellow Turkish interlectual that would run rings around you and is a man that speaking from facts, something you do not know about, you can speak from Ars* as much as you want But Elcil is 100% right, Get use to it
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 13:53we all know who has loose screws old man, and that is you repeating the same fringe references regardless of what the article is
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 14:48CM moderator..please take note of .Roc ” debating style” this has been reported.
Paralimni
June 5, 2018 at 12:54Well from here in the UK according to reports if we leave the EU with no deal our supermarkets will run out off food within days and fuel and we will have to fly in medical supplies which will be in short supply. I don’t believe this rubbish but my point is with negative news like this in our press no one gives a sh.t about what Turkey may or may not do around the sea of Cyprus. I would like to add that it would be very interesting to see what would happen if Turkish drill ships just stray slightly over to Israeli EEZ ? would be fun watching IAF F-35 jets sink Turkish ships.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:39How about an apology, for all the trouble they caused, all those people that were slaughtered for no reason?
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:09stupid boy, ………
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 20:42Yet again Dumbo, nothing but insults from you Braveheart, you have nothing to say, only insults.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:55I am not insulting you badge boy leo, just describing you based on your comment
Kyrenia
June 5, 2018 at 10:48This is blatant up coming election posturing. I’m also expecting a “terrorist attack” in Turkey instigated by the state designed to galvanize support. The UK foreign office has issued a warning to travellers going there already.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 10:52Nothing to do with the elections. Hardly any Turkish voter cares about Cyprus, north or south.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 11:03You do though dumbo, that’s why you are here reading every single post, in case someone mentions the word Turk.
E.K.
June 5, 2018 at 11:07Keo how are you Theo the leo
MrH
June 5, 2018 at 11:39You’ve been reading too many conspiracy stories. Try getting a job and paying bills like the rest of us and concentrating on real news! LOL
Kyrenia
June 5, 2018 at 11:42Try being intelligent.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:25Try being Rational;
It might just get you some where!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:33Cyprus should issue Navtex’s in it’s EEZ in between Cyprus and Turkey.
Sonar
June 5, 2018 at 16:24They can, no ships to use it, or enforce it,
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 16:37We can pretend, and threaten them with an Exocet, if they don’t oblige, and tell them to p…off into their own EEZ.
clergham
June 5, 2018 at 10:24Where is Spy Kyp when you need him?
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:43Around your mum’s.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:31You seem to enjoy insulting mothers..is that what your parents taught you? Do you have parents? Has anyone ever sworn at your mother on the street?
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:19You have mental health issues, don’t forget to take your medication little badge boy leo, and be sure to listen to your carers.
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 20:40Dumbo same old same old, you and High Tide are so obviously one and the same.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:00Now I know you are hallucinating, just take your tablets and you will be ok
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 21:09Same shit, different post, Dumbo.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:24you have trouble understanding compassion
Maz
June 5, 2018 at 10:08The thieving pirates are at it again scavenging the sea like vultures in pointless adventures. If TCs want to benfeit from ROC gas as they are obviously very very desperate to do so they need to start showing some good will and detach themselves from their Anatolian masters.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:16If the TCs tried to detach themselves from the teat of Turkey, the Turks will invade the pseudo-state and do what they do best, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Where would the TCs run to, will they jump in boats and sail to Syria?
E.K.
June 5, 2018 at 11:01Hey Leo…
Tell Waldo to stop sucking on Kotzias teat !
Maz
June 5, 2018 at 11:39The Turks are already doing what you say above slowly but surely. Either way the TCs future is not looking too great.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 10:18You must be out of your mind. The TRNC has commissioned Turkey to protect its rights to the possible resources of the island. There is no “ROC” gas, first it has to be extracted and then shared with their co-owners, the Turkish Cypriots.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:19Dumbo you brain dead troll.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:32Your still alive?
Maz
June 5, 2018 at 12:41Commissioned don’t make me laugh, the Turks don’t get commissioned they just put a gun to your head
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 12:46Well, if so, be a good boy and put your hands up.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:47Class!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:30Erudite you racist troll.
Maz
June 5, 2018 at 12:54No I’ll leave that to you you’re the expert at putting your hands up you just don’t realise it through your delusions
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 13:00We have beaten you hands down. LOL!
Maz
June 5, 2018 at 13:17The only thing you’ve beaten behind your keyboard is your manhood
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 13:53Don’t project your pastime onto others.
Georgios Milopoulos
June 5, 2018 at 14:51ROC will consider a compensasion by Turkey about 900 Blns – then calculations andT/cs will hve to pay the difference.Are you serious that there is a “thing” “TRNC?Just a number of people with their muchtar named themselves a state . thats all you are
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 16:27Keep your illusions. The wake up will be harder.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 10:46what Tcs do not understand, is that if and its a big if that if any revenues were gained by Turkey from the gas fields all they will do is offset it from the 500 million it subsidies the North , so the Tcs will see nothing, this is a case of Turkey lining her own pocket and using the TC as the excuse. and the Tcs are to dumb to see this.
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 11:09Your too Dumb to see we are still getting the 500m regardless (Your own words!) and if we get anymore its a Bonus,
The difference is the ROC thinks she owns Cyprus and thinks she is entitled to all the Resources if any is found,
What a Muppet you are Roc, Even a fool can read between the lines of your words,
Hopefully the Turkish ship will find Resources and we TC will expect a reasonable amount distributed to us TC,
We trust this will happen,
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 11:18Another idiot joins the forum, that what I said DumbA your still get your subs but you will not get an additional funds, its well known that Turkey wants to cuts the funding to the north as much as it can and if any revernues did come from the gas it would offset it agaist what your getting,
What part of that do you not understand, try counting the the audders on your cows it may help you
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 11:48I understand clearly;
But do you have the intelligence to Understand is the Question!!
Happy to pay back our debts unlike the Roc on the Take!!
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:04Keep you hands out in a begging bowl and point it to Turkey, because mate you will seen no revenues from Turkey that is a fact, the sooner you anatolians remove you noses at of the native tcs lifes the sooner they can prosper like all Cypriots should
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 12:15TC to prosper under the ROC banner!!lol
Is that what your suggesting!!lol
How do you know we wont see any Revenues from Turkey?
Can I borrow your Crystal Ball to see the 6 magic numbers as well please?
We don’t need the ROC blud, Turkey will back us until the end regardless; Chew on that!! lol
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 12:57Spoken like a true freeloader anatolain in Cyprus poor native Tcs, having muppets like you talking on thier behalf
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 13:27Handkerchief is required!
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 14:47Your not a native..your a mainlander hellenic fanatic
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:34We own the Island Erudite, it’s our island, you was dumped here by the Ottomans, did you forget, you are/were uninvited, you have zero rights here, doesn’t matter how long you have been living here, you will never be a Cypriot, never.
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:19your grandmother was impregnated by nice anatolian boys, it seems you missed these beautiful genes.
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 18:21Your mother was impregnated, by not so nice anatolian boys, that’s why you are an Ahole.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:21Statistically most GC have Turkish genes, its a fact
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 12:10Your argument is nonsensical, so you are saying that TRNC now receives 500m aid from Turkey, if gas is extracted and the TC share is 500m, then TRNC will not need the aid as it has its own source of income. So it will be not be reliant on the Turkish aid, how is this a bad thing???? And if the gas income is more than 500m, TRNC will have more resources than it now has. hmmm sounds goo to me. or am I missing some of your warped thinking???
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:37You ain’t getting nothing Dumbo, not from the Turks nor from the RoC, get used to that idea Dumbo.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 20:20Take your medication little badge boy leo
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 20:39Dumbo, you always use the same lines, ask your Imam for a new script, this one is worn out, like your brain cells.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:02Getting to you little badge boy leo, just because you have a sunday school priest does not mean we are all like you. You have brain cells on your mind all the time, try not to think about it too much and take your pills when your carers say so
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 21:08Dumbo you are exactly like High Tide, you are boring, same old insults time and time again, you only come here to insult you have fa to say.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:20I am being compassionate, I can feel your anger. every one of your comments demonstrate you have nothing to say, you are a super troll, when ever your carers leave you to your own devices
Georgios Milopoulos
June 5, 2018 at 08:22They spend millions to get a drill ship which does not have the staff to proceed to any drill. They just spend the money to help Ertogan’s internal affairs. Trying to drill in a foreign EEZ area is an act of war .Turkey can not affort a war but can of course affort to keep the subject alive.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:25You don’t know the situation concerning non recognized EEZ’s. Better read the post below.
Georgios Milopoulos
June 5, 2018 at 11:18Not recognize by whom? By the attacker? Case remains as it is-Any try to drill in a foreign EEZ is an act of war. And it will be attended as such. Some exersises started in the nearby area. Personal opinion-The certain ship will fishing outside Attalia until 25 June18.Then it will start her voyage to black sea.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 11:25Nonsense. The treaty has not been signed by Turkey. There is no legal recourse to defend unilaterally declared EEZs. If objected, they are listed as ‘disputed areas’.
The “ROC” is in no position to declare war, that’s truly a joke. Exploration by Turkey will start in TRNC waters.
Georgios Milopoulos
June 5, 2018 at 14:53Hsas Turkey signed the boarders between Oman and UAE? What you are talking about – Who give a sht what Turkey signed or not.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 16:26Try to inform yourself. The Treaty applies only to signatories. Neither the US nor Israel have ratified it either.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:39Im afraid you’re talking to Turkish trolls not TCs! They only support Turkey and push to annex the north to Turkey! Their aggression is obvious and in every sentence there is a threat! Probably being paid by Turkey’s propaganda brigade!
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 09:37Your spot on with your statement, I not yet known of hardly any native Tcs that are this agressive towards the ROC , they all seem to be Turks from all other countries and Anatolain settlers .
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:11“Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the public spending of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), saying the total has reached $2.94 trillion.
“During 79 years of the republic from 1923 to 2002, the total spending of all governments was $713 billion. From 2003 to 2017, under the AKP, the money spent is $2.94 trillion. Where has this money been spent?” Kılıçdaroğlu said, addressing representatives from NGOs in the northwestern province of Bursa on June 1.
“What has been done with this money? Roads and bridges have been built. But if this money was spent for development and growth then the country would be full of factories and production. Where is this $2 trillion?” he added.”
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:18Turkey is not party to the Law of the Sea Treaty and does not recognize the unilaterally declared EEZs around Cyprus. Why drilling off shore Cyprus should affect Israel and Egypt must be the secret of ‘Politis’. In any case, nothing will stop Turkish Cypriots to protect their rights with the help of Turkey.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:20Turkey is not party to any law! They are a law unto themselves and have no friends left!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:22The so called Law of the Sea is not a law but a treaty among consenting members. It has no legal mechanism. Try to do something about Turkey’s right to explore!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:26Try do something!!! Is nothing that comes out of your mouth not a threat!
Turkey has become isolated and is a financial wreck!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:28If anyone is isolated it’s your economically irrelevant half island that owes billions to Russia and the EU.
Start saving to repay, you have not started yet.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:29Really! I would read some financial newspapers if I were you!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:32That’s where you can read all about your near bankruptcy and the billions of loans you had to obtain since the robbery of your bank accounts was not enough.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:36How can you compromise with a Turk!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:39What a weird reply on your own financial fiasco.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:41You don’t deny however!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:47Why should I deny your financial shenanigans?
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 18:03Do you need a Money box by any chance!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 18:08Not necessary!
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 18:15HT said you needed to save up to pay your debts,
A money box is a start!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 18:31I’d start looking at your own finances if I were you!
Erdogan hassan
June 5, 2018 at 18:38Vaso, Quick Question; If you was getting married in South Cyprus would you invite a Turk?
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 18:47I’d invite anyone who was my friend
Georgios Milopoulos
June 5, 2018 at 08:24Turkish Cypriots rights in north occupied areas-T/cs rights in south . Then the word right lost its meaning and need a hard way explanation.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:26Only if the “ROC” recognizes the TRNC. As long as this is not the case, all resources on the whole island are to be shared by both communities.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 09:40You have no chance of anyone giving the North recogntion you cannnot even muster 3 muslim countries let alone wanting the ROC to give you reconition, dream on
wheetabix
June 5, 2018 at 07:09I wonder if Turkey will stick to its principles and stop this unilateral exploitation of Cyprus’ resources by blocking the drillship’s way with their warships
Geoff
June 5, 2018 at 07:53Actually to keep things on an even keel. Either the ROC or Greece should be sending their warships to stop the Turkish ship from drilling. Just saying.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 08:16Like they did before to help ENI??!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:19Neither Cyprus nor Greece are aggressive countries that seek war!
If you like Turkey so much i suggest you move there or is the Cyprus pension your drawing to much to leave behind!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:20Short memory. Your Greek motherland made you lose half the island with her aggressive coup. Say thank you.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:21Unlike the north we do not regard Greece as the motherland! As you know Cyprus is its own entity and we do not leach from others!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:24Why are your troops under the command of a Greek officer? Why do you have the same national anthem?
Why are there thousands of Greek flags all over your half island, including in official places? Why are your leaders consulting Greece on every item concerning the Cyprob? I am sure you have no decent answer.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:28Because of Greek heritage that’s why! We are separate country, as you know, we are not a Greek island, as you know, we make our own decisions, as you know!
Just because the north decides to align with Turkey and not with Cyprus don’t try and paint the same picture in the south!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:33The fat man in Athens has different ideas. He is Anastasiades’ mentor. No decent answer on the above as expected.
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:37Rather a mentor than a dictator!
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 10:09Your wasting you time arguing with this dispicable Turko British Troll, do not forget this Dhead is the one that has no problem having all greek churches demolished in the North,
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 10:29καλή τύχη !
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 10:07Your such an Ahole.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:38CM please note .Roc has used the term Ahole. This is what he calls “discussion” and “debate”
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 13:12You still not in the debates but still trolling, am sure CM are monitering you
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 13:30Im just following your foot steps..when I see you respecting peoples views and not insulting or using racial slurs on commentators when if they disagree with your personal views then and only then I will debate with you. What your currently doing is NOT debating..your behaving like a hooligan in a playground.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 13:48The only debating he is familiar with is the one with the word ‘maths’ at the beginning of it!
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 13:51When commentators start using his tactics and “debating ” style..he calls them a troll and moans like a coward. The moron needs a seriously reality check
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 09:58The Turk Troll is trying to hijack this thread, please do not feed him.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:05Leo you’re back again???? You’re so thick you think no one realises who you are??
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 13:45Netroli and thick are an oxymoron.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 11:00You are too thick to understand why, Dumbo.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:36What a joke?!!?!?!
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:03Are you stupid or something to write a comment like that??
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 13:38Lol! Don’t hold back, girl!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:21He’s not a girl.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:58Stop lying you savage, murderer, you would have invaded whether they did or didn’t.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 10:35No, they are both passive aggressive!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:36You don’t even know what that means.
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 10:40You ever worndered why Turkey has no friends on this globe? It thrives on agression and lives of agreesion,
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 10:42I am not even remotely concerned about Turkey or whether or not she has any friends! She’s a big girl!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:43You sound like a girl, a Turkish girl.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 10:47Lol! Ok ladies and gentlemen, we have a new loser! Give a warm round of applause for Batak 1876!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:48I’m correct.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 10:58You wouldn’t know correct if it sat on your face!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:59You confirmed it, I’m going to sit on your face.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 11:08Thanks for the offer but I don’t do prepubescents!
E.K.
June 5, 2018 at 11:06Leo isnt new.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:07Beware Batak 1876 is Leo/Arty etc etc as before he needs banning agin
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:22You need banning you shit stirring troll.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 22:51Nice!
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 11:14This just shows your arrangance and stupidity
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:08It’s your friend Leo!
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 10:43And she’s sinking in her cesspit!
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 11:34Sounds like you and a few others are foaming at the mouth at this article
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 11:33Is that why they pulled out the red carpet for Erdogan a few weeks ago in your home town of London. He even met your Queen
disqus_NDS5HDcngL
June 5, 2018 at 18:2330 million foreign tourists annually. lol.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:02Greece not aggressive??? I would love to go to Istanbul yes and why not??but of yet I don’t know Turkey, as for your stupid comment …..I don’t draw a Cyprus pension-sadly I didn’t work for the government!!
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 19:29Of course you didn’t work for the government, as you need a brain.
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 22:54Errr…. no you dont
Cizre Feb2016
June 6, 2018 at 09:00I lay money that you can’t get a job there.
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:19The Larnaca Fire Brigade?
Vaso
June 5, 2018 at 08:19Oh you’re back after being conspicuously away yesterday! Oh yes sorry that was the Girneli pseudonym!
HighTide
June 5, 2018 at 08:21Deluded as always.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:35Girlnellie is having a day off, lol.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 11:31Little badge boy leo always struggling to make a sensible comment, your carers must be having a day off
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 11:35Dumbo, your first post was to reply to me, how did you know what I posted?
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 11:39Actually badge boy you were the second post, you are not worthy to be the first, you were an after thought
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 11:41Second was I Dumbo, so you read every single post first, made one post then you came here to reply to me?
That doesn’t sound logical Turko.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 12:13I read the whole thread, enjoying how the elam boys were frothing at the mouth as they always do on articles about Turkish extraction of gas in the Med. It was entertaining.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 12:17Dumbo you Bozkurtlar, no bozkurtlar, no Elam, no TMT no Elam, no invasion, no Elam, you see Dumbo, Elam is your creation.
BTW tell ErDOGan to keep out of Cyprus’s EEZ, it’s a declaration of War if he doesn’t, and we don’t want a War do we, Dumbo.
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:35We don’t deluded Elam pests but yet your still here.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:04Calm down and take your pills, be rational and listen to your carers
Cizre Feb2016
June 5, 2018 at 21:06Sure Dumbo, sure.
Girneli
June 5, 2018 at 21:20well done, am just thinking of your mental health
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:34Can today be that day you JUMP?
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:09He really does believe none of us know who he is!!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:24Us? So you are a Turkish Troll.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:30Where’s the RoC’s navy?
.ROC
June 5, 2018 at 10:37You think that power is only confined to the size of of ones country and miltary power, Mate you ever wondered why the North is still unreognised for 46 years, thats because the hard work that the ROC does with countries and establishments around to keep open the fact that Turkey invaded Cyprus, this is the same crap Turkey is isolated in this action and it will come back to haunt her,
Cyprus74
June 5, 2018 at 12:28Up your A
Neroli
June 5, 2018 at 13:11????? What navy????
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 13:44Why are you asking the same question that I am?
If you had more than one brain cell, you would be asking the question to the same person that I did.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 14:30Two completely different questins! You asked about the whereabouts of the RoC navy and Neroli asked which navy you were referring to! And, before you get all excited about my misspelling of the word ‘question’, I already know!! I did it on purpose for the petty nitpickers on here!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:25You are too thick to know whats one thing or the other, you took my post out of context, Dumbo.
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:34One Exocet will do the job.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 10:41Do you have one?
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 10:44Why should I tell a Turk?
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 11:23Is that your stock response to everything when you struggle with a decent answer? You are clearly as inellectually limited as a light switch with its on/off function! Unless, of course, it has a dim function!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 11:38“Is that your stock response to everything when you struggle with a decent answer? You are clearly as inellectually limited as a light switch with it’s on/off function! Unless, of course, it has a dim function which is also apt!”
When questioning someone’s intellect, you have to make sure that your grammar is 100%, otherwise people will think that you are a thicko.
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 12:17Wow, you had to quote my entire comment just so that you could point out that I left out the letter ‘t’ In a word?! Is that really the best you can do?
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 13:48Yes, what are you going to do about it turko, slit my throat whilst I’m asleep?
Oh Come ON!
June 5, 2018 at 13:53That is something that your mother should have done when you were a baby!
Batak 1876
June 5, 2018 at 17:27Is that what your mother did, with your siblings, the ones that don’t exist as they are dead and buried turko?
Zakos
June 5, 2018 at 06:28Might be a game changer?