Turkey seeking to include refugee issue in CBMs

Athens is reportedly wary of Ankara's attempt to incorporate the migrant and refugee issue into the framework of confidence-building measures (CBMs) between the two countries.
In this light, recent accusation by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that Greek authorities have mistreated migrants may be a bid by Ankara to pressure Athens into including the issue on the CBMs agenda.

According to sources, the issue was raised during a bilateral meeting between Greek Defense Ministers Nikos Panagiotopoulos and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels on October 25.
The Turkish side pushed for the integration of certain aspects of the refugee problem in the confidence-building measures between the two countries. Ankara argued that these measures stipulate an exchange of military officials between the two...