fifth Summit with out illusions

With low expectancies Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives on Monday afternoon in Ankara for the fifth summit assembly with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after the new typhoon led to in Greek-Turkish members of the family by means of the reinstatement of the rhetoric of “grey zones”, as a response to the Greek announcement on marine parks, and Erdogan’s resolution to continue with the conversion of the Chora Monastery right into a mosque precisely one week prior to welcoming the Greek High Minister. “Now we have a greater local weather, however I haven’t any illusions”, the High Minister identified, mentioning that if one appears to be like at Greek-Turkish members of the family macroscopically over the past 4 years, our nation has no longer moved from its positions, not like President Erdogan who, as he famous , from the “Mitsotakis yoke”, now takes phase within the bilateral consultations.

Some great benefits of discussion

From Athens, they spotlight the advantages that experience come from the open channels of conversation in recent times in Immigration, within the box of violations, that have virtually disappeared, in addition to within the box of tourism with the Turkish visa categorical for 10 Greek islands. As for the tensions that rise up every now and then, Greek international relations considers that they will have to no longer turn out to be a reason why to prevent the discussion. Greece’s major function from Monday’s assembly, as famous by means of Giorgos Gerapetritis, is to have a decent dialogue that may mild the lighting fixtures of peace within the area, although the stipulations don’t seem to be but ripe for dialogue at the thorny problems with demarcation continental shelf and EEZ.

The 4 of the 2 leaders

• The assembly evaluation summit of the 2 Greek-Turkish leaders finds that when the extraordinarily scorching summer time of 2020, the ice between Mitsotakis and Erdogan broke for the primary time on June 14, 2021 in Brussels, at the sidelines of the NATO Summit. Of their hour-long assembly, the 2 males then agreed to position in the back of them the duration of hysteria and transfer ahead with the measures of a good schedule in spite of any basic variations recorded of their positions. There, the primary foundations have been laid for the later optimistic cooperation in Migration.
• From Turkey’s facet after all, new demanding situations intervened, alternatively, on March 13, 2022, Mitsotakis and Erdogan met once more, this time in Istanbul, on the presidential place of abode, for a meal that lasted two hours. The principle subjects at the schedule of the dialogue have been the Ukrainian factor and the continuation of the hassle to de-escalate the stress between the 2 nations.
• In July 2023the following assembly between the 2 leaders happened, at the sidelines of the NATO Summit, in Vilnius, the place they showed the need to stay conversation channels open and enforce a street map of bilateral contacts that incorporated the 3 pillars of debate, the Political Discussion, the Self belief Development Measures and the Certain Time table aimed toward deepening the members of the family between the 2 nations and fighting crises from going on.
• In December 2023, the Turkish president visited the Greek capital for the fifth Superb Council of Greece-Turkey Cooperation, within the context of which the “Athens Declaration on Pleasant and Excellent Neighborly Family members” was once signed. At the similar day, the 2 delegations co-signed 15 agreements between ministries and businesses in important sectors equivalent to Immigration, tourism, whilst the securing of approval by means of the Ecu Fee for Turkish visa categorical to ten Greek islands of the Japanese Aegean, which was once applied a couple of days in the past, was once additionally introduced .
• At Monday’s assembly alternatively, the place a brand new framework of agreements shall be introduced across the theme of New Applied sciences and New Other folks, the Greek High Minister, as he has already said, will categorical his “intense dissatisfaction” in regards to the Turkish govt’s resolution to transform the Monastery of Chora right into a mosque as, as he identified, this is a monument of world cultural significance whilst, on the similar time, he emphasised that it isn’t a bilateral factor. Response to the conversion of the Byzantine temple into an Islamic mosque, very similar to that of Hagia Sophia in 2020, was once additionally from the State Division, which famous in a observation that it “encourages the Turkish govt to care for and make sure accessibility to the websites and the structures that housed other spiritual communities, in some way that respects their numerous historical past.”