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If a minister of a foreign country visits Turkey or meets with a Turkish official, that is automatically and wrongly interpreted through the prism of Greek-Turkish relations.

The Greek PM reminded his UN audience, with seriousness that Turkey’s effort to dispute Greek national sovereignty has its limits, and is a clear and inviolable red line.

Turkish analysts are noting that Erdogan is lagging in the polls on next June’s general elections, and everyone is wondering what means he might employ in order to remain in power.

The Greek government is ready to respond to any provocation, but it has no reason to allow itself to be dragged into a competition of aggressiveness.

Under no circumstances will our country’s stance be determined by the actions of Turkey, nor will Greece allow itself to be exploited by Erdogan’s games.

The Turkish president speaks the same language as his Russian counterpart. He, too, would like to be proclaimed a life-long president. He, too, dreams of empire.

We no longer live in a bipolar world. There are constant geopolitical shifts and it is not at all clear that democracies have the upper hand.

The former US Secretary of State says Erdogan’s tactics ‘do not befit good neighbourly relations between two NATO member states’, only way to confront Putin ‘adequate show of force’.

Turkey has every right to be concerned about its security, but its leader does not have the right to interpret international treaties any way that suits him.

Erdogan clearly indicated that he got what he wanted from the deal regarding Sweden and Finland, and that declared he would leave the summit with his 'hands full'.

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ trip to Washington triggered hostile outbursts against him from Ankara, which is attempting to exploit current challenges to its benefit.

The Ruler of Dubai was received in Ankara yesterday as a messiah, with the hope that investment will save Turkey from economic disaster. However, few economists believe that.

Greece has a duty to staunchly declare that it is a member of the EU and of NATO, and a constant, stabilising factor in the Southeastern Mediterranean, in contrast with Turkey.

The EU expresses its solidarity with Poland as regards the emergency conditions at its borders, but also does not back off from its demand for the rule of law to be respected in Belarus.

Sanchez extolled the level of Spain-Turkey bilateral ties, noting, 'As my friend [Mr] Erdogan said, there are few countries that have such meetings at the highest level.'

'Unfortunately, Alexandroupolis is not just one base – all of Greece has been transformed into a US base. I did not manage to count how many American bases there are in Greece,' Erdogan said.

Erdogan has often demonstrated that the only way he knows to address domestic problems is through aggressiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere.

All previous archbishops at least from Athenagoras (later Ecumenical Patriarch) on, have met and maintained good relations with the US president of the day and are invited to the White House

'I returned it [Hagia Sophia] to those who are its owners since the time of Mehmed the Conqueror...Either I will take Byzantium or Byzantium will take me,' Erdogan declared.

The Turkish president announced the opening of a small portion of the fenced off, ghost city of Varosha, which has been guarded by Turkish occupation forces for the last 47 years.

Ankara – as was confirmed by the Biden-Erdogan talks with bilateral relations tattered – will always be viewed as a crucial ally for the West, of which Greece is a part.

One can achieve aims during PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the possible Biden-Mitsotakis meeting.

The Turkish Foreign Minister talks to TO VIMA ahead of his meetings with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Dendias.

President Joe Biden’s recognition in precisely articulated language of the Armenian Genocide reflects the birth of a new outlook that is not confined to the realm of geopolitics.

A year ago, while still a presidential candidate, Biden commemorated the 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children who lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

While the meeting with Cavusoglu had been scheduled earlier, Erdogan’s surprise move to meet Dendias comes straight on the heels of his snub of European Commission President Ursula van Der Leyen.

Erdogan's stance is based on the multi-faceted domestic crisis that Turkey is entering. It is also based on a complete shift in his policies since the abortive coup attempt in 2016.

Severe domestic problems and international pressures on Turkey’s president have led to erratic actions, including dangerous games in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

'The skirmish two days ago at a Nato foreign ministers’ teleconference between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu does not alter the facts, nor does it signal a shift in Washington’s stance towards Ankara.'

The problem is that despite various indications Turkey’s next moves remain unknown because we have not yet learned to read them properly.

Athens has been offered a great opportunity to exploit the European wave of dissatisfaction with Ankara by responding calmly to provocations, and persistently highlighting Ankara’s violations of Greece’s sovereignty in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

By denouncing the alleged mistreatment of Muslims in Europe based on Emmanuel Macron’s decision to project cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on government buildings, Erdogan is posing as the only true and dynamic protector of the world’s two billion Muslims.

With the election of Erdogan’s chosen candidate, Ersin Tatar, many believe that Ankara’s control over the occupied territories will be even tighter and more glaring.

Greece has openly expressed its willingness to commence a substantial dialogue with Turkey which both the EU and the US strongly support.

The best answer to Turkish provocations is always diplomacy. That way Athens demonstrates that it is by being the trustworthy regional interlocutor and that in contrast with Turkey it can be a basic pillar of stability.