Turkey breaks off high-level talks with Greece as rift grows

ISTANBUL, 02 June 2022, (TON): Turkey will no longer hold high-level talks with neighboring Greece, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said amid rising tensions between the traditional rivals.

Ankara resumed negotiations with Athens last year following a five-year break to address differences over a range of issues such as mineral exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and rival claims in the Aegean Sea.

Erdogan told a meeting of his party’s lawmakers in Ankara “we broke off our high-level strategy council meetings with Greece.”

He added “don’t you learn any lessons from history? Don’t try to dance with Turkey.”

The talks had made little headway, but were a means for the two countries to air out their grievances without resorting to a potential armed standoff as had occurred as recently as two years ago.

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