NICOSIA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to visit Athens for talks with his Greek counterpart George Papandreou, press reports said on Friday.
In preparation for the high-level meeting, only weeks before Turkey’s scheduled EU path evaluation, foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due to fly to the Greek capital early in December.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s chief EU negotiator Egemen Bagis is still in Athens where he gave a speech on Thursday on his country’s bid to join the European bloc.
He referred also to Cyprus, saying that Turkey wants a settlement too since a non-solution is more costly for Ankara, but he also repeated the Turkish side’s provocative rhetoric about “two peoples and two states” rather than a united federal island.