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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that he would no longer meet with Greek leaders over the recent clashes over islands and airspace in the Aegean Sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“We will no longer hold bilateral meetings with them,” the president said in a speech to his parliamentary group in Ankara.<\/p>\n
“We had an agreement of the high strategic council with Greece, but I informed the foreign minister yesterday that we no longer stand by this agreement,” Erdogan added.<\/p>\n
The 2010 agreement between Turkey and Greece guaranteed regular high-level meetings to develop co-operation between the two countries.<\/p>\n
Today, referring to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, but without mentioning his name, Erdogan said: “He goes to the US and makes comments against us in front of Congress. “It ends here.”<\/p>\n
Turkey has intensified its criticism of Greece since Mitsotakis said last month in Washington that flights over Greek islands from Turkey were an “open act of aggression.”<\/p>\n
Mitsotakis added that these interventions violate Greek territorial rights, worsening ties between the two embarrassing NATO allies.
Turkish media interpreted the Greek prime minister’s speech as a call not to give Turkey the long-requested F-16 jets.<\/p>\n
Mitsotakis said this week that he would not engage in personal “ping-pong” retorts with Erdogan.<\/p>\n
“Turkey is what is threatening us,” the Greek told reporters in Brussels, adding that Ankara “is wasting the opportunity to improve ties.”<\/p>\n
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