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The “war of the nerves” continues Anchor, that according ERT kept the Greek government plane over the border in the air last night for 20 minutes Turkey – Iraq.
According to State television, Turkey initially refused to grant an overflight permit to the ship carrying the Foreign Minister Nikos Dendia from Iraq to Athens.
The governors had received them normally provided empty by the Turkish authorities, however, when the plane approached the border, they refused to approve the overflight license.
So the plane with the Greek minister Exterior I had to circle the area for approx. twenty minutes -period of time during which the “intense” became, according to ERT, communications of the pilots of the aircraft with Turkish Beginning.
Visit Dendia to Iraq
It is recalled that Nikos Dendias traveled to Iraq on Wednesday where he was received by the country’s president, Barham salih, during his visit to Baghdad for meetings with the state and the country’s political leaders.
At the center of the meeting were regional issues, with an emphasis on Eastern mediterranean Y Middle East, according to a relevant publication of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter.
The Greek minister also met with him. Iraqi counterpart of.
“It just came to our knowledge then Turkey act of minelayer of peace “and stability in the region in general,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in a statement issued in Baghdad after meeting with Faud Hussein.
As he highlighted all the crises in the region, such as “the Nagorno–Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Cyprus, the southeastern Mediterranean, but also Iraq, have one thing in common: Turkey».
“Greece has declared repeatedly “At the highest level, he is ready to initiate a dialogue with Turkey on the basis of respect for international law and good neighborly rules,” he said.
“However, we have also made it clear that dialogue between two sovereign countries can never take place in an environment of aggression and threats.”
