Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting could benefit both sides

It is customary for the leaders of Greece and Turkey to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that takes place every September in New York. Even when Greece and Turkey ended up being represented at the foreign minister level, such contacts were carried out at the two countries' permanent missions at the UN, alternately.
We are going through a tense period, with an escalation of verbal "warnings" and even threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which are occasionally complemented by grandiose maps, and with a succession of navigational telexes whose basic purpose is to turn up the heat and increasingly provocative actions within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone.

This also comes at a time when Turkey's relations with both the European Union and the United States are under particular strain. Given all these factors, the meeting between...