Turkey off the hook as EU postpones sanctions decision amid coronavirus scare - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Sep 22, 2020

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and France's President Emmanuel Macron gesture as they attend a meeting on the digital economy at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. — JACQUES WITT/AFP via Getty Images

Turkey grows increasingly isolated in eastern Mediterranean dispute with Greece

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 28: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Josep Borrell, EU Foreign Minister make their way to a press conference after informal talks between the EU Foreign Ministers at the Foreign Office in Berlin on August 28, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. The topics of the so-called Gymnich meeting include the developments in Belarus and the dispute over natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean between Turkey and the EU states Greece and Cyprus. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld - Pool / Getty Images)

Can EU sanctions threat cool Turkey’s moves in eastern Mediterranean?

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A Greek navy boat leaves the port of the tiny Greek island of Kastellorizo, officially Megisti, the most south-eastern inhabited Greek island in the Dodecanese, situated two kilometers off the south coast of Turkey on August 28, 2020. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey backs off in EastMed, but for how long?

Cengiz Candar

A picture taken on September 25, 2019 in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Cyprus approximately 20 nautical miles (37 kilometers) north-west of Paphos, shows a Turkish army frigate, the TCG Gelibolu, (R) and the drilling vessel Fatih (L), which was deployed by Turkey to search for gas and oil in waters considered part of the EU state's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia enters EastMed fray, offers to mediate with Turkey

Ayla Jean Yackley

Ayla Jean Yackley