...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
despite
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...’s hostility to the deal.
The move comes amid tensions with Turkey over its activities in the area and a maritime deal with Libya expanding Ankara’s claims over a large gas-rich area of the sea.
The 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) EastMed pipeline will be able to carry between nine and 12 billion cubic meters of gas a year from offshore reserves held by Israel and Cyprus to Greece, and then on to Italia and other southeastern European countries.