Draft: EU Leaders Seriously Concerned at Cyprus, Turkey Tensions

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Draft: EU Leaders Seriously Concerned at Cyprus, Turkey Tensions | Defense News | defensenews.com

Oct. 23, 2014 - 02:17PM |
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders will call on Turkey to respect Cyprus's sovereign rights, expressing "serious concern" at fresh tensions between the two countries over oil and gas exploration, a draft summit document showed Thursday.

The statement, to be issued at an EU summit in Brussels, comes after Cyprus on Monday slammed Turkey for sending a survey vessel into an area where the Cypriot government had already licensed exploratory drilling for oil and gas.

"The European Council expressed serious concern about the renewed tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. It called on Turkey to respect Cyprus' sovereign rights," said the statement prepared for the 28 EU leaders meeting in Brussels and obtained by AFP.....
 

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We have all the ingredients for WWI. I foresee EU collapsing soon. Greece and Serbia will ally with Russia. The Kurds are going to take over much of Turkey. Russia will annex Ukraine, and then invade the Baltic countries. US and Turkey will become adversaries, and Turkey will join hands with the Saudis. Iran and Israel are going to cool their heels, and probably fight against Turkey and Saudi alliance, which is result in a revolution in Saudi. Spain will fragment. Britain will fragment.
 

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