A scheduled visit to Ankara this week by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will seek to “resolve all our problems at the table,” Ömer Çelik, a spokesman for Türkiye’s ruling AK Party, has said.
Mitsotakis is slated to visit Ankara on Wednesday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
During the Greek prime minister’s visit, the two leaders will also preside over the sixth meeting of the Türkiye–Greece High-Level Cooperation Council, which was established in 2010.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Çelik said the long-awaited visit would provide an opportunity to improve bilateral ties following decades of hostility over the divided island of Cyprus.
While saying diplomacy would “benefit everyone,” Çelik criticised recent Greek military activity in the Aegean Sea, saying that “the arming of islands that should be unarmed is producing negative consequences.”
The party spokesman also accused Greece, a longstanding European Union member, of trying to “turn its own problems into EU problems.”
Bilateral deals
This week’s meeting in Ankara of the Türkiye–Greece Cooperation Council will also be attended by relevant cabinet ministers from both countries.
According to official Turkish sources, attendees are expected to discuss the latest regional developments and sign a raft of bilateral deals aimed at boosting diplomatic relations.
Last December, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias described Türkiye as the “greatest threat” to his country, announcing plans to bolster the Greek military presence on a number of Aegean islands.
In January, Dendias said Greece reserves the right to extend its territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles, a move Ankara considers a breach of international law and a potential casus belli, or justification for war.
This week, Dendias, who is known for his hard-line positions vis-à-vis Türkiye, said he was unlikely to attend the bilateral meeting in Ankara due to a scheduling conflict.
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