Turkey has once again sent a drilling ship to the eastern Mediterranean. The Abdülhamid Han will “keep searching until it finds something,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday in the southern Turkish city of Mersin. NATO partners Turkey and Greece have long been at loggerheads about gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean. Athens accuses Ankara of illegally exploring for gas deposits off Greek islands. The Turkish government rejects the accusations and takes the view that the gas exploration is legal. There is a similar conflict with Cyprus. In 2020, the dispute escalated …