Treaty of Lausanne

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...

The first official response from Turkey to Greece regarding the Greek government's announcement this week for plans to inhabit 28 inlets in the Aegean sea came on Thursday from the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu. Muftuoglu said in a...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated comments about the Treaty of Lausanne, likening the recent tragedy Turkey experienced with the 1923 international agreement. On Thursday, Erdogan said that the recent bloody terrorist attacks that cost dozens of lives caused him...

Two Turkish warplanes that violated Greek airspace over the Lesvos-Chios-Samos islands area twice, were involved in dogfights with a pair of Greek F-16 fighter jets on Monday. The Turkish F-16 entered Greek airspace in the area of Lesvos and Chios...

The International Hellenic Associaton sent an open letter to the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan following his recent statements: Dear President Erdogan, Recently, you have launched an often repeated and relentless campaign referring to “your heart’s borders"...

"The Greek government will not tolerate this unacceptable revisionism," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said, referring to Turkey's challenge of the Lausanne Treaty. Tsipras spoke to the SYRIZA parliamentary group in the House on Wednesday, in the aftermath of a statement...

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...

New New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Athens on Thursday, to whom he expressed his concern about the recent statements made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Treaty of...

The continuing verbal exchange between Turkey and Greece over a wide range of topics from the EU-Turkey deal on migration to the Treaty of Lausanne has increased the tension between the two countries. According to reports by authorities, there have...

  "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...