Turkey denies reports of missiles fired in Cypriot waters

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday denied reports that missiles had been fired from a vessel in Cypriot waters, after a video appearing to show missile fire, which was reportedly taken in the Karpas peninsula village of Platanissos, was widely circulated on social media.

“No firing exercises have taken place in the territorial waters of Turkey or of the TRNC. It has been determined that the firings shown in the images in question occurred in international waters,” it said.