The possibility of the nine Kurds arrested on Tuesday being linked to the visit by Turkish president Erdogan to Athens on 7 and 8 December is under consideration by Greek P{olicew (ELAS).
Greece's anti-terrorism service raided three apartments in central Athens on Nov. 28, detaining nine people for questioning on suspected of links to a far-leftist militant group outlawed in Turkey, police said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing civil war in Syria over the phone on Oct. 28, according to a Turkish presidential source.