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Survey Ship Sails for Greece-Cyprus Cable Route, Setting Up a Test for Turkey
A French-flagged survey ship has left Italy to restart work on a contested undersea power cable linking Greece and Cyprus. It is the first concrete step in a project that has twice stalled under Turkish pressure, and it comes days after Ankara won a diplomatic victory in Libya. The vessel, the Abeille Marengo, is due in the Cretan port of Heraklion on Tuesday. It is expected to begin surveying the seabed at the edge of Greek territorial waters off the island of Kasos. That is the same stretch of sea where, in July 2024, Turkish warships shadowed an earlier survey ship and brought the work