The supply for energy and ensuring its safety is of great importance for today's states. This study analyses the developments that have occurred around the 2000s when an important amount of energy resources was discovered in the Eastern Mediterranean zone. The Southern Cyprus Greek Administration claimed that they were the only authority to represent the island and signed ex* Yrd. Doç. Dr., Kocaeli Üniversitesi, İİBF, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Uluslararası Hukuk Anabilim Dalı Başkanı** Marmara Üniversitesi, Ortadoğu Araştırmalar Enstitüsü, Ortadoğu Siyasi Tarihi ve Uluslararası İlişkileri Bölümü Doktora Öğrencisiclusive economic zone agreements with neighbouring states along with deals that enabled various energy companies to carry out hydrocarbon exploration activities in some areas within so-called exclusive economic zone. Following these developments, Turkey emphasized the situation's contradictory nature for international law and attempted to block these activities that initiated on behalf of Cyprus Greek Administration. At the same time, the exclusive economic zone agreements are made between the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Turkey and TPAO (Turkish Petroleum Incorporated Company) started to conduct hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation activities in the zone which is agreed upon. Instead of driving benefits for all parties of the Cyprus Problem in case of reaching sustainable solution, hydrocarbon resources led to the tension in the area and turned into a security problem for the parties that involved. The Cyprus Greek Administration brought the issue to the international arena and thus trying to hamper Turkey's justified actions. Therefore, the approaches of some international and local actors are being analysed in this study