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21 February, 2019Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said: “We are starting to drill with two vessels around Cyprus in the coming days “
In his speech at an event, Çavuşoğlu touched upon the Cyprus problem and said: “Cyprus is both a strategic target and a national cause for us”
Çavuşoğlu, continued as follows:
“Natural resources in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus are a strategic target and a national cause for us. We never let the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people and Turkey be violated and we shall never let it be in the future. We are starting to drill with two vessels around Cyprus in the coming days. Nothing can be carried out in the Mediterranean excluding Turkey, we will never allow this.”