Greece Presses EU to Draw Up ‘Severe’ Sanctions on Turkey

  • Penalties on Turkey could unlock EU push to target Belarus
  • 27-nation bloc seeks to show unity on two geopolitical fronts
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Greece pressed its European Union partners to draw up “severe” sanctions against Turkey over its energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, a move that could unlock separate EU efforts to penalize Belarus.

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis said Turkey’s hunt for natural gas in waters claimed by Greece and Cyprus is part of aggressive geopolitical posturing by the Turkish government.