Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday urged Turkey to remove any threats to Greek-Turkish relations.
Speaking in Ankara during talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of the 6th Supreme Council of Cooperation, Mitsotakis said: “It is time to remove any threat from our relations. If not now, when?”
He also reaffirmed Greece’s stance on minorities, including the Muslim minority of Thrace, under the Treaty of Lausanne, calling for them to serve as “bridges of friendship between our peoples.”
Erdogan, for his part, described disputes in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean as “complex, but not unsolvable if there is a willingness for dialogue.”
The Turkish president emphasized that Turkey’s participation in European defense initiatives “serves common interests” and stressed the importance of keeping “the channels of dialogue open” between the two countries.