The climate that will prevail today at the meeting of the EU leadership - namely Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk - with the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Varna, Bulgaria remains a great enigma.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to broach the issue of Turkey’s escalating provocations against Greece when he met with President Recep Erdogan on April 3, during his phone contact with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras.

An unprecedented statement on “our brothers, the Turks who are oppressed in Xanthi and Komotini” in northern Greece,was made by Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a speech on the occasion of the “triumph” in Afrin.