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Turkey's research vessel, Oruc Reis, rear, anchored off the coast of Antalya on the Mediterranean, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the return of a Turkish survey vessel to port Sunday from a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean that has been at the heart of a summer stand-off between Greece and Turkey over energy rights. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Greece says talks with Turkey on East Med could restart soon

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By IAN MCNULTY and The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2020, file, photo shows Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter during a meeting in Athens. Libya’s U.N.-supported government Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte, which is controlled by rival forces. Fayez Sarraj, head of the Government of National Accord in the capital Tripoli, also announced parliamentary and presidential elections would be held in March. Both administrations said they want an end to an oil blockade imposed by the camp of military commander Khalifa Hifter since earlier this year. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Libya’s east-based commander promises end of oil blockade

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

France's Minister for European Affairs Clement Beaune, foreground, and Cyprus' Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides take part in a news conference at the Foreign Ministry building in the capital Nicosia, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Beaune says the European Union should consider imposing sanctions against Turkey if the country continues a hydrocarbons search inside waters where Greece and Cyprus claims exclusive rights. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

France: EU sanctions on Turkey an option over gas standoff

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

A general view of the temporary camp for refugees and migrants near Mytilene town, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Sunday Sept. 13, 2020. Greek authorities have been scrambling to find a way to house more than 12,000 people left in need of emergency shelter on the island after the fires deliberately set on Tuesday and Wednesday night gutted the Moria refugee camp. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Just 800 of Greek island’s 12,500 homeless migrants rehoused

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Turkey's research vessel, Oruc Reis anchored off the coast of Antalya on the Mediterranean, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the return of a Turkish survey vessel to port Sunday from a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean that has been at the heart of a summer stand-off between Greece and Turkey over energy rights.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey: Survey ship at heart of Med row at port for resupply

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek President's office on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou arrives at Kastellorizo to attend the celebrations marking when the southeastern island of Kastellorizo, formally became part of Greece. Greece's prime minister outlined plans Saturday to upgrade the country's defense capabilities, including purchasing new fighter planes, frigates, helicopters and weapons systems amid heightened tensions with Turkey over rights to resources in the eastern Mediterranean. (Thodoris Manolopoulos/Greek President's Office via AP)

Greece, Turkey signal willingness to talk about sea dispute

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Defense Ministry, military planes take part in a Greek-US military exercise over Athens, on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was to outline the details of a program Saturday to boost Greece's defense capabilities, amid heightened tensions with neighboring Turkey over rights to resources in the eastern Mediterranean. (Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

Greece to buy new planes, frigates amid Turkey tensions

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

A wedding photographer's assistant, wearing a mask for protection against the spread of coronavirus, holds lighting equipment, as a couple poses for photographs backdropped by Istanbul's iconic Maiden's Tower (Kiz Kulesi) at the Bosphorus Strait separating the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Turkey is getting tough on people who flout self-isolation rules despite testing positive for the coronavirus. An Interior Ministry circular sent to the country's 81 provinces on Friday said people caught leaving their homes despite isolation orders will be quarantined and supervised at state-owned dormitories or hostels. (AP Photo/Yasin Akgul)

Istanbul limits size of weddings, parties as virus spreads

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Moody’s downgrades Turkey’s rating to B2, negative outlook

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Experts: Libya rivals UAE, Russia, Turkey violate UN embargo

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Illustration on Greek/Turkish conflicts by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Greek-Turkish rivalry again near the boiling point

By Victor Davis Hanson

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides talk to the media during a press conference at the foreign ministry house in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Lavrov is paying an official visit to Cyprus amid heightened tensions over Turkey's search for energy resources in east Mediterranean waters where Greece and Cyprus claim as having exclusive economic rights. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Lavrov: Russia ready to help ease Turkey-Greece tension

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Defense Ministry on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, air force jets participate in a joined training drill with armed forces from Greece and the United Arab Emirates near the Greek island of Crete, southern Greece. Turkey's president on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, has warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences. Ankara is currently facing off against Greece and Cyprus over oil and gas exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. All sides have deployed naval and air forces to assert their competing claims in the region. (Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

Greece to boost military amid tensions with neighbor Turkey

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Two Mojave desert tortoises hide from the desert heat under a rock ledge in Red Cliffs Desert Reserve on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Utah. Biologists in southern Utah are surveying the damage left by a wildfire that scorched large swaths of land set aside for a rare tortoise habitat in southern Utah. (Joan Meiners/The Spectrum via AP)

Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

By Joan Meiners - Associated Press

In this photo provided on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, by the Greek Defense Ministry, worships from Greece, Italy, Cyprus and France, participate in a joint military exercise which was held from 26-28 of August, south of Turkey in eastern Mediterranean sea. Turkey on Monday, Aug. 31, accused Greece of &quot;piracy&quot; and warned it will stand up to Athens' alleged efforts to militarize islands near its coast. (Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

NATO: Turkey, Greece start talks to reduce risk of conflict

By ELENA BECATOROS and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar sits inside an F-16 jet fighter at a military air base in western city of Eskisehir, Turkey, Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020, during a training flight over Turkish Monument in Gallipoli peninsula. Akar said Thursday that Washington's lifting the arms embargo against Greek Cypriot-administered Cyprus will lead to a deadlock. &quot;If you lift the embargo and try to disrupt the balance in this way, this will bring conflict, not peace,&quot; he said.(Turkish Defense Ministry via AP, Pool)

NATO: Turkey, Greece agree to talks about tensions at sea

By SUZAN FRASER and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Migrants from Afghanistan with their belongings, sit at central Victoria square in Athens, on Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020. Greece's Shipping Minister says Greek authorities have managed to prevent the arrival of thousands of migrants seeking to enter Greece clandestinely by sea despite a recent lack of cooperation from the Turkish coast guard. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Minister: Over 10,000 migrants stopped from entering Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

US: Turkey-sent Syrian fighters generate backlash in Libya

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this photo provided on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, by the Greek Defense Ministry, worships from Greece, Italy, Cyprus and France, participate in a joint military exercise which was held from 26-28 of August, south of Turkey in eastern Mediterranean sea. Turkey on Monday, Aug. 31, accused Greece of &quot;piracy&quot; and warned it will stand up to Athens' alleged efforts to militarize islands near its coast.(Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

Russia, Turkey, Israel vie for Mediterranean resources

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times