Athens/Istanbul, March 8, (dpa/GNA) – Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will meet Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Sunday, Greek government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou confirmed on Tuesday.
Mitsotakis will travel to the Bosphorus to visit Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I and will then accept an invitation from Erdogan to lunch, he said.
The Turkish state broadcaster TRT, reported that the talks would focus on relations between the two countries and the Ukraine crisis.
The meeting between the two would be a minor sensation: Since Mitsotakis took office in summer 2019, the prime minister and the Turkish president have met only three times so far on the sidelines of other appointments such as NATO summits and a UN General Assembly.
The neighbouring countries are at odds over many issues and even came close to a warlike confrontation in the summer of 2020.
Among other things, sovereign rights in the Aegean Sea and the exploitation of possible natural gas deposits in the region are at stake.
Athens and Ankara also blame each other when migrants die at sea.
GNA