There was no harassment or attempt to obstruct the Gibraltar-flagged research vessel Fugro Gauss by Turkish forces, a government source in Nicosia said on Thursday, in response to same-day Turkish media reports citing the Turkish defense ministry. According to a report by state broadcaster ERT from Cyprus, which quotes the source, the only development was an "anti-NAVTEX" issued by Ankara, considered by the internationally recognized Cyprus government as illegal. Earlier, Nicosia had issued a NAVTEX following a request by a foreign company to conduct geological research in Cyprus' EEZ, and as part of the laying of a fiber optics cable. The same source, according to the ERT dispatch, merely referred to its "well-known and legally baseless" claims regarding a "Turkish continental shelf" in the eastern Mediterranean. Along the same lines, the private company conducting the research has not filed any complaint with Cypriot authorities...