Greece Offers Opportunity for Turkey If Drilling Dispute Fixed
- Drilling off Cyprus is the latest irritant in relations
- Greece Foreign Minister comments in interview in Washington
Greece's Foreign Minister Nikolaos Dendias
Photographer: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP via Getty Images
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Greece’s foreign minister said his country could work together with Turkey to exploit natural resources while urging Ankara to settle its dispute with the European Union over offshore drilling in the Mediterranean.
Nikolaos Dendias said in an interview in Washington that there are a wide range of issues where Greece could cooperate with Turkey. Those opportunities are currently held up by a disagreement over Turkey’s drilling operations in the waters off of Cyprus.