Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is expected to meet newly elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday morning in Cardiff, Wales. The meeting is being organized on the sidelines of a two-day NATO summit which ends on the same day.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and newly-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet on the sidelines of the upcoming NATO summit in Wales, according to reports.

The unofficial meeting was reportedly requested by Erdogan who recently irked the governments in Athens and Nicosia with calls for a two-state solution on the divided island.

One day after Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressed for a two-state solution on Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday expressed disappointment over comments made by the new Turkish president while placing his hopes of reaching a settlement on the European Union and Nicosia’s strategic partners.

Athens reacted angrily on Monday to calls by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a “two-state” solution to the Cyprus problem and claims that Greece is not “doing its duty” as a guarantor power, saying the comments were “disappointing” and “simply confirm Ankara’s persistence in its aggressive policy” on Cyprus.

A total of 33 police officers have been detained in Turkey on suspicions of 'plotting against the government', local media outlets say.

Police officials have not immediately commented.

Among the detainees were 14 high-ranking officers, according to Hurriyet Daily News.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Monday expected in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus in his first official visit as new Turkey President.

Erdogan, who was sworn in as his country's first popularly elected president last weeek, was scheduled to meet for talks with Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu ahead of a joint press conference.

By Nikos Xydakis

The Ukrainian crisis may herald the start of a second Cold War, while there is no shortage of analysts comparing the current international climate to that of 1914 in the runup to World War I.

A government jet carrying Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos back to Athens from Ankara where he had attended the inauguration ceremony of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was forced to conduct an emergency landing in Thessaloniki on Friday due to a technical problem.

“Turkey is very important to us, because we have the strategic goal to diversify our energy supplies,” Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev told the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Plevneliev is in Turkey to attend the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as president of the country. 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been officially sworn in as Turkish president after winning the country's first public vote for head of state, reports BBC.

Erdogan, who served three terms as PM, received 52% of the popular vote earlier this month, and vowed to give more power to the previously ceremonial post.