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Greece
Ankara Accuses Greece of Violating Lausanne Treaty in Aegean Islands
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar accused Greece on Thursday of violating the Treaty of Lausanne by keeping troops on the islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea.
Speaking with the opposition Sozcu newspaper, Akar said that ''We do not threaten Greece but...
Greece
Greek President Rules Out Lausanne Treaty Changes
President Prokopios Pavlopoulos has ruled out any changes to the 1923 Lausanne Treaty which set Greece's borders in international law.
Speaking on Thursday, Pavlopoulos was quoted by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency as saying: "With regard to Turkey: We seek friendship and good neighbourly...
Cyprus
Cyprus: Erdogan Statement on Lausanne Treaty 'Not in the Right Direction'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement on the Lausanne Treaty, is not in the right direction, Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday.
"It definitely was not a statement in the right direction, taking into account the Greek government's...
Diplomacy
Greek President Rejects Erdogan's Demands of Lausanne Treaty Revision
President of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claims that the decades old treaty, establishing the current borders between the two countries, needs revision.
During the meeting of the two heads of state in the presidential palace...
Diplomacy
Turkish Foreign Minister Disputes Lausanne Treaty Regarding the Aegean
Turkey will not accept de facto situations in the Aegean, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, adding that problems between Greece and Turkey should be resolved under international law.
Cavusoglu made the statement in response to a question...
Greece
Turkish President Erdogan Wishes for the Full Implementation of Lausanne Treaty
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Beijing raised the positive agenda for Greek-Turkish relations.
Erdogan adopted it and at the end of the meeting, he expressed the wish to fully implement the...
Greece
President Pavlopoulos: Challenging the Lausanne Treaty Is Like Challenging the EU Borders
Challenging the Lausanne Treaty is like challenging the borders of Greece and the European Union, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said in Lisbon.
Pavlopoulos who is paying an official visit to Portugal made these statements at the official dinner hosted in...
Greece
Pavlopoulos: Turkey Must Respect Greece's Borders, Europe's Borders and Treaty of Lausanne
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in an interview with Portugal's RTP TV called on Turkey to respect both the history and their friendship. "We should not just say that we are good friends, but we have to prove it," he...
Greece
German Foreign Min Says Lausanne Treaty Is Unwavering
The Greek newspaper Kathimerini has published an interview with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier where the foreign envoy told them that the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne, which determine the modern-day borders of Greece and Turkey, are set...
Greece
Greek President: We Will Defend the 'Unswerving Implementation' of the Lausanne Treaty
Greece is determined to defend the "unswerving implementation" of the Lausanne Treaty, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Thursday during an event proclaiming him an honorary president of the National Research Foundation “Eleftherios Venizelos” in Chania, Crete.
Pavlopoulos reiterated that Greece...
Greece
FM Response to Turkish Leadership: 'Statements Questioning the Lausanne Treaty are Unacceptable'
"Statements questioning the Lausanne Treaty are unacceptable," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Stratos Efthymiou said in reply to a journalist's question regarding the statements of the Turkish leadership on the Treaty of Lausanne.
Efthymiou underlined that "in the revisionism expressed repeatedly by...
Greece
Turkish President Erdogan: Lausanne Treaty Is Negotiable
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated a statement he first made over a month ago, saying that the Lausanne Treaty is subject to negotiation.
The 1923 Lausanne Treaty delineates the borders between Turkey and Greece. Turkish pro-government news website A Haber...
Cyprus
Belgian MEP Verhofstadt Thinks Erdogan's Claims on Lausanne Treaty Are Outrageous
Attempts by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to dispute the Lausanne Treaty were "outrageous," Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said on Tuesday at an Economist conference in Nicosia.
According to the head of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and...
Greece
Erdogan Doubts Lausanne Treaty Again; Feels Nostalgic for Ottoman Empire
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again referred to the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923 stating that his country has been "trapped" in this document that defines borders between Greece and Turkey. He made these comments while a dogfight...
Greece
President Pavlopoulos to Erdogan: Treaty of Lausanne 'Finally and Irrevocably' Determined Both Greece's and EU's Borders With Turkey
"The rhetoric of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directly or indirectly undermines the Treaty of Lausanne and the Greek-Turkish relations as well as the EU-Turkey relations," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday at a ceremony for his declaration...