Turkey and Greece agreed to recommence talks and strengthen confidence on Wednesday as they lauded a new positive climate in their relations.
For decades, these two NATO members have been at odds over territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and Cyprus’s ethnic divide, as well as over energy resources and the delineation of continental shelves.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan cut off talks with Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis last year after accusing him of trying to prevent the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. The dispute centered on airspace violations.
At the NATO Summit in Vilnius on Wednesday, newly re-elected leaders Erdogan and Mitsotakis reunited for the first time since March of last year.
The leaders decided on the northern Greek city of Thessalonki for the next meeting of the High-Level Cooperation Council, a mechanism the two countries established in 2010 to facilitate their reconciliation.
