OPAP on Wednesday strongly reacted to a government decision to impose an extra charge on lottery games operated by the company -a decision aimed to boost state revenues.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrived in Ankara on Wednesday for a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu starting shortly after noon. There followed a meeting between the delegations of the two sides.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras began his working visit to Turkey on Tuesday evening by attending a friendly football match in Constantinople between the two country’s national teams, along with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu.

An agreement reached between the Greek government and the representatives of the institutions (EC, ECB, IMF, ESM) sees subsidizing installments of mortgage loans for more vulnerable households and debt write-offs for households with an annual income of 35,000 euros and real estate worth less than 230,000 euros.