Turkey

Turkey-Greece dispute: Why are the two countries fighting over gas?

The dispute over drilling rights is just the latest episode in over four decades of tensions between the neighbours and NATO allies.

26 August 2020

Turkey

Turkey announces discovery of large natural gas reserve in Black Sea

Erdogan made the announcement on Friday. The plan is for it to be functional by 2023, the centenary of the Turkish Republic.

21 August 2020

Turkey

Turkey 'set to announce Mediterranean gas find' amid EU energy dispute

A source in the presidential palace has told Euronews' Turkish service that President Erdogan will be announcing the discovery of a new natural gas source in the Mediterranean on Friday.

19 August 2020

Tunisia

Turkey's Erdogan makes surprise Tunisia visit to discuss Libya

Erdogan reiterated that Turkey would send soldiers to Libya if invited by Tripoli — a promise that infuriated the rival Libyan government in Benghazi.

25 December 2019

Greece

Libya forces ship with Turkish crew into port as Greece slams sea deal

Greek foreign minister Nikos Dendias has visited Benghazi, the seat of Libya's eastern administration that is opposed to the UN-backed government.

22 December 2019

Cyprus

Watch: Food initiative tackles Cyprus' lionfish invasion

With the invasion of lionfish in the eastern Mediterranean reaching worrying levels, an EU-funded initiative is promoting the fish as food in Cyprus.

18 July 2019

Lebanon

Warming waters see a concerning increase in lionfish off Lebanon's sea

"It's like genocide," says fisherman Atallah Siblini. “Now it is like 30 to 50 of them in one place. They started to scare away the other fish including sea bass which we depend on and they eat everything.”

15 July 2019