Premier visits Turkey amid low expectations

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's visit on Tuesday to Turkey on Tuesday comes in the wake of a two-year deterioration in bilateral relations and the emergence of a new front dividing the two countries in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Tsipras will meet in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will also host a dinner in his honor after they hold a joint press conference.

Apart from the symbolic significance of Tsipras's planned stopover at the Halki Orthodox Seminary - which was shut down by Turkey in 1971 - his aides have anything but high expectations from the visit.

A case in point is Erdogan's reported personal annoyance at Greece's failure to extradite the eight servicemen he accuses of taking part in the failed coup attempt in 2016.

At the same time Ankara is also aggressively pushing its energy agenda in the Eastern...