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.

In his speech at the 68th General Assembly of the UN, government vice president and foreign minister, Evangelos Venizelos, highlighted a number of issues including illegal migration, the concern of Greece for peace and stability in the Middle East, relations with FYROM and Turkey, and the Cyprus issue.