Our View: No gas exploitation without some kind of deal with Turkey

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/10/21/our-view-no-gas-exploitation-without-some-kind-of-deal-with-turkey/

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What is the big picture here?

Cyprus? Whether it is an island divided by its "Greeks" and its "Turks", or Free respecting those Greek and Turkish who are Cypriot? (Like in Turkey, with its Kurds.) I would have hoped that it is, but it isn't.

Now, with the present day foray, Greece appears to be the focused target in Block 4, it's frontier with Cyprus, (as in Block 5, where, whether Cyprus contests alone or not, as an outcome, only Cyprus will suffer,) next would be Egypt's relation with Cyprus stressed, a similar presence in Block 7 or 8, Israel too, in March (with the elections in Turkey) i'm guessing. Let's not mention the exploration in Block 10, "belonging" to Egypt as Erdogan sees it (for the moment no 'war' there by his consent); but, who wants to escalate their issues militarily?

Turkey's intentions were never so simple. While Cyprus plays a pivotal role, what with Erdogan's leadership, beyond Cyprus, all the Eastern Mediterranean, what else, than supremacy of the sea, can be expected? Can you imagine it? All its Maritime traffic, all its wealth in it and on it, west of the Suez Canal, a Turkish scope of affairs. It is no longer impossible. What with the "new" Peri Reis, and the submarines that follow it, what of this capacity as a military-industrial complex growing, and for what reason, (on what is "his" continental-shelf)? What with the appeasement of an Agreement in Cyprus; "Peace"? "Their" (read: those, not "Turkish") tribute to explore or to drill is the recognition of "Turkishness" and its supremacy, realised; a Cypriot identity (a balance to "Turkishness") no more, on which (the world, and) Turks, not "Turks", in Turkey, may compare.

Cyprus, no more a State, with Cypriots no more, is a betrayal to all Humanity. And yet the sea surrounding this island, the balance of power, is in his grasp.

...something to think about