Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Felicity Party (SP) Chairman Temel Karamollaoğlu is set to meet Turkey's former President Abdullah Gül on April 25, amid continued opposition shuttle diplomacy aiming to strike alliances and find candidates to run against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the late June presidential and parliamentary elections.

Turkey has a responsibility to share the pain of Armenian citizens over the "1915 events," according to a statement signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and read at an Armenian memorial held in Istanbul on April 24. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) of "polluting the parliament" after 15 deputies quit the CHP to join the newly founded İYİ (Good) Party and help it set up a parliamentary group.

Political developments in Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's large-scale crackdown against opponents in the wake of the 2016 failed coup, and the humanitarian impact of war in Syria, are intensifying migration pressure on Greece, with authorities reporting a spike in arrivals on the Aegean islands but also across Greece's northwestern border with Turkey.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on April 23 rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's offer of a "swap deal" involving two Greek soldiers jailed in Turkey in exchange for Turkish soldiers wanted by Ankara over the 2016 failed coup.

 Greece on Sunday said it considers the President's call for peace a positive step, Daily Sabahreported.

Alternate Defense Minister Fotis Kouvelis on Monday refuted claims made by an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkish soldiers took down Greek flags from a cluster of islets in the southeastern Aegean that are disputed by Ankara.

We Greeks are right to be concerned by the sudden election campaign in Turkey, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the opposition parties try to outdo each other in nationalistic fervor. But what comes next - the country that will emerge from this - will be far more important.

An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasted in a recent television interview that Turkish military forces not only infiltrated 55 kilometers into Greek territory, but took down flags from a cluster of small islets in the southeastern Aegean as well.

Greece came into being, survived and developed as a state because it was able to combine the so-called Greek spirit with the support of key powers every time it stood at a critical crossroads. It can do so again, as long as it plays its cards right.