"Turkey is incorrect, since drilling procedures are in line and thus legally protected by the UN Convention for Sea, Palmer Report, which Turkey has never signed, and cannot claim. The European Union and its members are legally bound by European Law."
"Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons or countries for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them, in accord to the United Nations Assembly."
"In that eventuality of political terrorism that Turkey has no legal binding over its claims, threats of terrorism towards European Members states, in total burden of UN, International Laws of Sea and in compromise of European Law are totally punishable, and in that eventuality that EU territories or European citizens are exposed, then in that case the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) and the Unions Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) will be put to practice."
"If Turkey escaltes the threats to an act of politcal terrorism and war, then in that case member territories will be protected under the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) and the European Union Military Operation framework."
"Finally, The Republic of Cyprus has every legitimacy in accord to International and European Law, and the off shore drilling is in total support of the European Union, and Turkey not."
-- EU Official, 05 September 2011, 20:31 --
The comment appeared on Today's Zaman article "Cyprus: Gloom and doom' by AMANDA PAUL on September 4 2011.