President Erdoğan, Turkish Cypriot PM speak over phone to discuss Eastern Mediterranean

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone call with Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ersin Tatar and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay to discuss recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean on Sunday.

Turkey, as one of the guarantor power on the island of Cyprus, along with Greece and the U.K. has consistently contested the Greek Cypriot administration’s unilateral drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean while asserting that Turkish Cypriots also have rights to the resources in the area.