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Yesterday, for the fifth consecutive time, the request for the release of the two Greek soldiers, Angelos Mitrotodis and Dimitris Kouklatzis, who are detained in the high security prisons of Adrianople, was declined.

The coordination committee of the presidents of Greece’s Bar Associations which convened on Saturday in the northern Greek city of Kozani will ask from the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) to send a mission to Turkey as the deadline for any legal action against the two Greek servicemen that are being illegally held in an Adrianople prison has expired.

Ankara has excceeded all limits of provocation, as in a letter to European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, the country for the first time officially links the 8 Turkish officers seeking asylum in Greece directly with the two Greek soldiers detained in Adrianople's prison.