Turkey 'looking forward' to Tsipras's visit, says ambassador

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's two-day visit to Ankara on Tuesday, during which he will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will help promote a "positive agenda," the country's Ambassador to Greece, Burak Ozugergin, said in an interview with the state-run news agency ANA-MPA, published on Monday.

"We are very much looking forward to this visit," he told ANA-MPA, adding that "we have better days to come."

He said Turkey is ready to refer bilateral problems to international organizations.

"We have always said that we are ready to employ any of the dispute-solving mechanisms shown by the UN system - negotiation, arbitration, recourse to the judiciary, etc,"

Asked whether Turkish parliament should finally drop its "casus belli" threat adopted in 1995 to prevent Greece from extending its territorial waters to 12 miles, the ambassador said: "The...