Overview
- Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara for roughly two hours before a joint press conference under the High-Level Cooperation Council framework.
- The leaders oversaw six memorandums of understanding covering culture, technology and trade as they advanced a ‘positive agenda’ for cooperation.
- Both sides highlighted migration as urgent after 15 people died off Chios, with Mitsotakis saying Aegean crossings fell by nearly 60% last year and calling for stronger action against smuggling networks.
- Core disagreements over maritime boundaries persisted, with Greece reiterating it may extend territorial waters to 12 nautical miles and Turkey pointing to its 1995 casus belli and a recent maritime notice on research areas.
- Erdogan and Mitsotakis reaffirmed confidence-building efforts and set a $10 billion bilateral trade target while stressing that disputes can be addressed through continued dialogue and international law.