Greek-Turkish relations

You don’t have to be an expert to know that the relations between Greece and Turkey have been among the most turbulent in the diplomatic history of Europe. Rooted in a history of disputes, the two Mediterranean nations have gone...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Sunday afternoon. Mitsotakis first arrived in Istanbul on Sunday morning, attending church services with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Saint George Cathedral, one of the most...

The Cultural Association of the Pomaks issued a damning statement recently, ahead of Sunday's private visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to Western Thrace.

In response to the recent series of incursions and airspace violations committed by Turkish fighter jets over several Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos sternly warned Turkey against further violations of the country's integrity...

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he had a "substantive and sincere" conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Monday, as part of Yildirim's visit to Athens. The two officials discussed, among other issues, Greek-Turkish relations, migration and Cyprus....

  "The rhetoric of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directly or indirectly undermines the Treaty of Lausanne and the Greek-Turkish relations as well as the EU-Turkey relations," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday at a ceremony for his declaration...

The meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was completed on Thursday. Tsipras underlined the importance of cooperation between Greece and Turkey on the handling of refugees flows. On his side, Davutoglu agreed on the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated he is determined to claim rights to energy reserves inside Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Tension between Turkey and Greece continued on Sunday, when the Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces, Admiral Bulent Bostanoglu,...

Alper Sunaçoğlu, a veteran Turkish swimmer stated that he wants to swim from Smyrna to Athens in order to contribute to Greek-Turkish relations. However Sunaçoğlu didn’t receive the support he expected from the Swimming Federation in Turkey, so he...

The Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry has issued an announcement chiding the Greek Foreign Minister, Stavros Dimas, for his statements on Greek-Turkish relations during the latter’s meeting with the Secretary General of NATO last Thursday in Athens. “It is known by...