Greek, Turkish FMs’ comments spark ire at home

The joint statements on Thursday by Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Antalya, that Ankara should not be excluded from the unfolding energy game in the Eastern Mediterranean, sparked a war of words between the government and opposition New Democracy.

In a statement, ND's shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos accused the government of unilaterally diverging from Greece's foreign policy positions with regard to Turkey. Koumoutsakos said the comments by Katrougalos were the latest in a string of statements by Premier Alexis Tsipras, former Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and SYRIZA MPs that open the door to Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The ND official rued that Katrougalos's remarks were made a day after the trilateral summit between Greece, Israel and Cyprus with the participation of US Secretary of State...