Turkiye says gas pipeline project with Turkish Cypriots can provide power to whole island

ISTANBUL: Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a planned natural gas pipeline linking Turkiye and the breakaway Turkish Cypriot community could eventually provide power to the entire ethnically split island. Turkiye announced a project this year to build a mostly subsea 101-km (63-mile) natural gas pipeline to the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), aiming to supply gas to…