Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan appears to have told his European counterparts about his country’s tough stance on the Cyprus problem during last week’s informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
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Information came to light recently indicating that the United States may, under certain conditions, review its decision not to supply Turkey with F-35 fighter jets.
A former ethnic Greek mayor of an Albanian town, whose imprisonment on vote-buying charges has strained Albanian-Greek ties, has been released on probation, his office and a lawyer said Monday.
Whoever wins the US presidential election, the Greek-American relationship – which has been “exceptionally close” in recent years – will remain unaffected, says Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine during Donald Trump’s presidency, in an interview with Kathimerini.
After 16 months in an Albanian prison, Fredi Beleri has been granted early release. His request, which had been postponed three times, was approved on Monday.
After 16 months in an Albanian prison, Fredi Beleri’s request for early release will be heard on Monday.
Speaking a day after his meeting in Brussels with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis dismissed speculation that Athens made concessions to Ankara during the incident near the eastern Aegean island of Kasos in July when an Italian ship conducted cable-laying research for the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection.
Signifying deepening relations between Greece and India, four fighter jets and two transport aircraft as well as Air Force personnel are currently stationed at the Jodhpur Air Base in Rajasthan.
Turkey’s foreign minister hopes to make progress on improving Ankara’s rocky ties with the European Union on Thursday as he attends a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels for the first time in five years, a source from his ministry said.
Foreign Ministers George Gerapetritis raised the issue, among others, of Ankara’s reactions to the investigations conducted by the special Italian-flagged ship Ievoli Relume south of Kasos for the electrical interconnection project between Greece and Cyprus during a bilateral meeting on Thursday in Brussels with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and the informal working lunch of EU foreign ministers.
Turkey is among the five most powerful countries operating on the African continent. It is present in regional crises, developing the role of mediator, currently between Ethiopia and Somalia. It sells defense equipment, with an emphasis on drones, and has established military and naval bases.
In comments shortly before the end of his term as the American ambassador to Turkey, Jeff Flake confirmed the United States’ desire for a solid relationship between the two countries that serves their common interests.
Greece, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia, is leading the effort to evacuate and tow the Greek-owned oil tanker Sounion, which was attacked last week in the Red Sea by the Houthis, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giorgos Gerapetritis highlighted the positive agenda in GreekßTurkish relations during a speech at the informal working lunch with his European Union counterparts and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
Greece’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been in touch with his Saudi counterpart as part of discussions to avert any ecological disaster from a Greek flagged oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after a Houthi militant attack last week.
The Cyprus problem and Euro-Turkish and Greek-Turkish relations will be among the issues to be discussed in the meeting on Thursday in Brussels that Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will have with Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Brussels, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers, according to Greek diplomatic sources.
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