Mitsotakis to meet Merkel, Erdogan due in Brussels amid migration crisis

Amid the new migration crisis at Greece's land border with Turkey, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due in Berlin on Monday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who provoked the crisis by declaring that Ankara would no longer guard the European Union's border, is due in Brussels for talks with EU officials.

Mitsotakis had not been taken aback by Erdogan's move to effectively suspend the EU-Turkey migration deal signed in 2016 as he had been threatening to "open the borders" for months, Kathimerini understands.

When Greek Foreign Ministry and state intelligence sources confirmed that Erdogan had made good on his threat on February 28, an emergency session was called and the decision taken to crack down at the Greek-Turkish land border. Mitsotakis also reached out to European leaders including European...