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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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...