Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar made new provocative statements against Greece.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, will be in Ankara tomorrow, where he will have a private meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoglu. There will then be extended talks between the two delegations and joint statements to the press.

The foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus and Austria intervened concerning  a public statement by the EU foreign policy chief Borrell anticipating the EU's attitude towards Turkey. The Borrell report on Euro-Turkish relations was discussed at today's meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council.