The new energy war in the Eastern Mediterranean (and why Egypt and Turkey stand to gain)

Until just a few years ago, the battle for natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean primarily revolved around who exactly owned the vast deposits in its depths. The competition to find and exploit these reserves fueled disputes over the delimitation of territorial waters between Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Libya and Egypt, or between Israel, Palestine and Lebanon. At times, these tensions on the high seas raised fears that there would be an outbreak of hostilities.

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