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Cyprus: Putin 'to help ease' gas search tensions with Turkey

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 12:03 AM

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to intercede with Turkey's leader to try to ease rising tensions over oil and gas exploration in eastern Mediterranean waters that Cyprus claims as its own, the Cypriot government said Thursday.

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