{"id":4717,"date":"2019-01-28T23:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2019-01-28T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:18:23","slug":"us-backed-east-med-alliance-may-bypass-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/us-backed-east-med-alliance-may-bypass-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"US-BACKED EAST MED ALLIANCE MAY BYPASS TURKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-696\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-560x386.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-260x179.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG-160x110.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/GAS-RIG.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Ahvalnews<\/p>\n<p>By Nikos Georgiades<\/p>\n<p>The United States is fostering efforts by Greece, Cyprus and Israel to form an eastern Mediterranean security alliance as Washington\u2019s NATO ally Turkey flirts with Russia and Iran, and confronts U.S. policy in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside security agreements, the United States is looking to set up an energy corridor to transfer newly discovered gas reserves in the region to Europe, undermining Russia\u2019s dominance as energy supplier to the European market and curtailing Iranian ambitions to use Syria as a gateway to the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month called the region \u201can important strategic frontier\u201d and said Washington was working to strengthen relations with \u201cdemocratic allies there, like Greece and Cyprus and Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/ahvalnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/ahvalnews.com\/node\/37568?amp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Ahvalnews By Nikos Georgiades The United States is fostering efforts by Greece, Cyprus and Israel to form an eastern Mediterranean security alliance as Washington\u2019s NATO ally Turkey flirts with Russia and Iran, and confronts U.S. policy in Syria. Alongside security agreements, the United States is looking to set up an energy corridor to transfer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/us-backed-east-med-alliance-may-bypass-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US-BACKED EAST MED ALLIANCE MAY BYPASS TURKEY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}