ANKARA: The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey on Thursday clashed on a wide range of issues during a volatile press conference at the end of their first meeting in over a year. The talks between Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias were ostensibly meant to show the two uneasy NATO neighbours trying to put aside their differences after a year of complex disputes.
The two countries teetered on the edge of all-out war when their gunboats collided while shadowing each other during a Turkish push into disputed eastern Mediterranean waters last August.
The press conference opened with conciliatory remarks from Cavusoglu in which he praised “the very positive dialogue” they just held in the Turkish capital. But Dendias used his opening remarks to rattle off a series of longstanding complaints about Turkey — from its search from natural gas in contested waters to its treatment of the Greek Orthodox minority and the sides’ ongoing dispute about migrants.
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