It is unclear whether some sort of negotiations on Turkey's Aegean demands has begun in the context of bilateral meetings on confidence-building measures, which were revived last year by Erdogan and then PM Alexis Tsipras,
'Today the president of Turkey stated that he warned Greece’s leadership not to lay a wreath at Imia, implying that movements of the Oruc Reis were linked to the prospect of the Greek military approaching Imia,' SYRIZA stated.
Can any US or EU involvement be effective and if not to what degree can Greece handle a protracted crisis with a hostile neighbour who has no compunction about making fresh demands at every opportunity?
Turkey began with the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and expanded with constant disputes of Greece’s sovereign rights in the broader region of the Aegean and southeastern Mediterranean.
'If they are threatening us with the implementation of these sanctions, of course we will be retaliating,' Erdogan said.
'We are here to stress that this specific agreement is rejected, it is invalid,' said Aguila Saleh Issa, speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives.
"Greece's hands and feet have been bound and that has driven them crazy," Erdogan declared.
Main opposition SYRIZA has said it hopes that PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ‘s claim that the party supports terrorism with Athens’ steadfast rejection of such claims. Party sources said that, “Turkey’s effort to present Greece as a country that supposedly harbor terrorists is diachronic and the answer of successive Greek […]
Today’s meeting, reportedly was not a negotiation but rather a repetition of the two sides’ steadfast position.
Trump said tals with Erdogan were 'wonderful' but it was unclear if the two NATO allies made any breakthrough on the S-400 issue.
'The Erdogan-Trump part of the U.S.-Turkey relationship is really the only component of it that is currently working right now, Cagaptay said.
All that has been happening in the last few months on the Greek islands do not point to a responsible stance on Turkey’s part.
The curtailing of refugee and migrant flows from the Turkish coast to the Greek islands was obviously also at the top of the Greek PM’s agenda.
'We are saying we should form such a safe zone that we, as Turkey, can build towns here in lieu of the tent cities here. Let’s carry them to the safe zones there,' Erdogan said.
Washington’s concern is that deploying the S-400 with the F-35 would allow Russia to gain too much inside information of the stealth system.
“Cozying up to Vladimir Putin is unacceptable,” Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
Russia has so far kept a stance of equal distances between Ankara and Nicosia.
Turkey has engaged with U.S. negotiators in recent days about buying the Raytheon Patriot system, a person familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.
The economy contracted for the second quarter in a row at the end of last year and the annual inflation rate is nearly 20 percent