Greek PM asks Pompeo for US help to calm Turkish offshore tensions

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the United States on Saturday to use its influence to defuse tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, where Cyprus and Turkey are locked in a dispute over offshore rights.
Mitsotakis told visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Turkish moves south of the island in recent days were a "flagrant violation" of Cyprus' sovereign rights.
Tensions between Cyprus and Turkey over offshore drilling have intensified after Ankara sent a drilling ship to an area already licensed by Nicosia to Italian and French energy companies.
Turkey and Greece are allies in NATO but long at loggerheads over Cyprus, which has been ethnically split between Greek and Turkish Cypriots since 1974.
"The United States have a particular interest in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Cyprus is only asking for the self-evident, the implementation...