Amid support from EU, coalition leaders to discuss Greek soldiers

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet his coalition partner Panos Kammenos on Tuesday for talks on the protracted detention of two Greek soldiers in Turkey amid speculation about a rift between them. The meeting comes a few hours after Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the issue of the Greek soldiers with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"Our European partners are showing solidarity and support," Kotzias said after a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.

He added that Merkel had broached the issue with Erdogan. "I hope and would like to believe that there will be a positive outcome in the sense that Turkey will not try to turn an everyday event at the border of two countries into a weapon in the long term," he said, referring to the fact that the two Greek soldiers crossed the border by accident...