Panagiotopoulos
Afghanistan – What Mitsotakis will say to Erdogan about refugees
The telephone communication between the Prime Minister and the Turkish President at 7.30 pm tonight is made on a Greek initiative as the Prime Minister wants to make it clear that Athens would not like to see a crowd of refugees at the Evros fence and incited mass movements on its land and sea borders, and on the other hand that the mass flows of refugees are not in the interest of either count
Defense minister bemoans lack of conditions for good neighborly relations with Turkey
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotoulos said on Friday that at the moment, there are no conditions for good neighborly relations with Turkey, referring to constant fluctuations due to Turkish provocations.
Panagiotopoulos denies Erdogan’s claim that Athens promised not to approach Imia
Defence Minister Nikos Papagiotopoulos denied the public statement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Athens agreed with Ankara not to approach the Imia islets on the anniversary of the 1996 dispute over their sovereignty brought the two countries to the brink of war.
Erdogan's remark triggered a political backlash in Athens.