Germany's Social Democrat Party

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is due in Berlin on Friday for talks with his German counterpart Olaf Scholz that are expected to focus on Greek reform efforts and the prospects for lightening the country's debt burden.

Debt relief for Greece is an issue that has provoked divisions in the new German government.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the European Union to explicitly say if it does not want Ankara as a full member, describing German politicians' "anti-Turkey stances" as an implementation of "Nazism and fascism."