Greek media reported that Turkey was withdrawing its warships, which it had deployed in the Mediterranean, in preparation for gas exploration operations, after warnings from Athens to Ankara.
Ankara was also quick to delete a propaganda tweet published by the Turkish embassy in the United States, which claimed the start of the excavations already.
Ankara had said earlier that it would conduct a "seismic survey", that is, a technique for deep sea research, near a Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean, which exacerbated tensions between the two countries.
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