Türkiye’s attitude towards Greece has changed and created a workable relationship that Greece hopes will continue long term, Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias said on Saturday, ANA reports.
In an interview published in “Proto Thema” newspaper, Dendias noted that Turkish violations have stopped. “There are no violations in the Aegean, there are no overflights, there is no toxic rhetoric, there is no verbal aggression, there is no threat of using violence,” Dendias told the newspaper. This new reality is reflected he said in the Joint Statement of Greece-Türkiye following the 4th Meeting of the Positive Agenda in Ankara on March 22, as well as Dendias’ recent meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Brussels recently.
The Greek government is fully aware of the difficulty of Greek-Turkish relations and foresees that Türkiye will respond in good faith to the new prospects opening up in relations. “We ought to, we have an obligation, to respond to such Turkish behavior,” he said, adding that he cannot make predictions about whether it will last. “But imagine how bad it would be if Türkiye extends a hand of collaboration with Greece and Greece rejects it – in other words, becomes inconsistent with what it has been saying so far” of seeking dialogue with Türkiye, he stressed.
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