Recep Tayyip Erdogan

On 13 May, a source familiar with the matter said the United States had asked Turkey to delay taking delivery of the S-400 system, currently scheduled for July, in return for potentially approving the formation of the working group.

Nicosia hopes Total-ENI collaboration in its EEZ will hamper Erdogan’s plans far more effectively than the EU’s verbal remonstrance and tepid warnings.

For months it has been clear that sooner or later Ankara would proceed with actions aiming to ensure that it has a place on the energy map of the southern Aegean.

'Its status of museum could be stripped off. Actually that status was given by a step taken with the mentality of the [Kenal Ataturk's Republican People’s Party] CHP. We can take that step taken by the CHP mentality back,” Erdogan declared.

Peace is not built on hasty visits. It is even more difficult to build when the country effectively lacks a foreign minister (as the PM has assumed the portfolio).

Tsipras expressed heightened concern over dangerous military indidents in the Aegean and he underscored the importance of the direct line of communication with Erdogan.

The Greek judiciary, without probing the substance of the charges, ruled that the eight qualified for immunity as they could not be assured a fair trial in Turkey.

The Greek PM described his relationship with Erdogan as one of 'respect, honesty and directness' but noted that those ties were 'challenged in very difficult moments'.

What will avert a repetition of the kinds of statements Mr. Erdogan made on his last visit to Greece, when he disputed even the Treaty of Lausanne?

In parliament yesterday, tAlexis Tsipras resorted to the familiar tactic that characterises his government, to attack the media that do not pledge allegiance to those in power.