Ankara to keep defending Turkey’s, Turkish Cypriots’ rights in east Med: FM

“We defend our rights and the rights of the Turkish Cypriots all the way. We’ll also do what’s necessary when there’s action that will harm these rights,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said at joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Poland’s capital Warsaw.

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“Recently, unfortunately, there have been some provocative actions from Greece and the Greek Cypriot side. Their ships are trying to enter our continental shelf,” he said, adding that Turkey was taking the necessary steps in the face of this.

Turkish President Erdogan and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in Cyprus in July.