{"id":311211,"date":"2020-01-20T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311211"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:26:36","slug":"eu-warns-turkey-to-keep-off-mediterranean-gas-exploration-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-warns-turkey-to-keep-off-mediterranean-gas-exploration-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"EU warns Turkey to keep off Mediterranean gas exploration plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has urged Turkey to drop plans to drill for oil and gas around Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, saying such exploration was \u201cillegal\u201c. <\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Thursday that Turkey would start exploring for gas in the eastern Mediterranean \u201cas soon as possible\u201d this year, after signing a maritime deal with Libya. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcrete steps towards creating an environment conducive to dialogue in good faith are needed,\u201d EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano said in a statement released Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention by Turkey to launch further exploration and drilling activities in the wider region goes, regrettably, in the opposite direction.\u201d Ankara has angered neighbouring countries in the Mediterranean with an agreement signed with the Tripoli government in November, which claimed extensive areas of the sea for Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has urged Turkey to drop plans to drill for oil and gas around Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, saying such exploration was \u201cillegal\u201c. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Thursday that Turkey would start exploring for gas in the eastern Mediterranean \u201cas soon as possible\u201d this year, after signing a maritime deal with Libya. \u201cConcrete steps towards creating an environment conducive to dialogue in good faith are needed,\u201d EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano said in a statement released Saturday. \u201cThe intention by Turkey to launch further exploration and drilling activities in the wider region goes, regrettably, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}