Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to arrive in Greece on an official visit on December 7-8, but the delay in the dispatch of a formal invitation accompanied by the lack of any official announcements by either side has shed some doubts, mainly due to possible obstacles during deliberations between the two countries’ diplomatic bodies regarding the details of the Turkish President’s program while in Greece.

“Turkey isn’t just Turkey,” adding that apart from its 79 million citizens there were hundreds of thousands of other “brothers” in the geographical regions to which it had been historically and culturally bound, pointing to “western Thrace.”