Former Hellenic Postbank CEO, Angelos Filippidis was arrested in Turkey, after being detected by his cellphone and is being held at the Malpepe prison.

Turkey is continuing provocations over the issue of the Agia Sophia cathedral through an announcement by its foreign ministry stating that "Turkey has nothing to learn from Greece, on the issue of religious freedoms."

The Turkish health minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has invited 7,000 Greek doctors looking for work abroad to go to Turkey.