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Turkey: Russia to hold live-fire exercises in Mediterranean

by Associated Press
| September 3, 2020 8:27 AM

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey announced that Russia plans to conduct live-fire naval exercises this month in the eastern Mediterranean, where there are escalating tensions between Turkey and regional neighbors Greece and Cyprus over rights to offshore energy resources.

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