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To the President of Turkey Tayyip erdogan the prime minister called on Friday afternoon Kyriakos Mitsotakis, chance the deadly 6.7 Richter earthquake on Samos and Smyrna.
“Whatever our differences, at this time our peoples must be united.” wrote Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announcing the phone call in which he expressed his condolences to Tayyip Erdogan for the deaths in Turkey.
At the time of the phone call, the tragic news that at the time of the earthquake that wall was unknown collapsed and crushed two students on the island of Samos.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ phone call with Tayyip Erdogan was the first direct communication between the Prime Minister and the President of Turkey in ten months. Their previous conversation was in December 2019, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in London.
I just called the president @RTErdogan to offer my condolences for the tragic loss of life caused by the earthquake that struck our two countries. Whatever our differences, these are times when our people need to be united.
– Prime Minister GR (@PrimeministerGR) October 30, 2020
According to the Turkish media, the President of Turkey stressed to Mr. Mitsotakis that his country is ready to help Greece, if necessary.
Previously, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, contacted his Turkish counterpart by phone, Mevlüt Tsavousoglu, shortly after great earthquake in the Aegean Sea and expressed Greece’s readiness to assist in operations to liberate civilians from the ruins of Smyrna.
The tweet from the Foreign Ministry on communication Dendia – Tsavousoglou state:
“After the earthquake that affected Samos and Smyrna, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias contacted a Turkish counterpart of M. Kavusoglu and expressed the readiness of the Greek government to send EMAK forces to Turkey immediately to help free civilians caught up”.
After the earthquake that affected Samos & Smyrna, the Foreign Minister @NikosDendias contacts his Turkish counterpart M. Kavusoglu and expresses the willingness of the Greek government to send EMAK forces to Turkey immediately to help free the trapped citizens
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@GreeceMFA) October 30, 2020
And phone Surani – Kalin
Your meeting Eleni Sourani by Ibrahim Kalin in early summer in Sedan -despite your effort Mevlüt Tsavousoglu torpedo him – was the beginning of the effort to resumption of exploratory contacts that ultimately did not bear fruit.
In the last three months, despite the outbreak of Turkish aggression and seismic studies by Oruc Reis of Kastellorizo, the communication channel of its director diplomatic office of the prime minister with his spokesman Tayyip Erdogan has remained open.
And today Friday October 30, after a long time strong 6.7 Richter earthquake that swept his city Σμύρνης in Turkey and shook everything North aegean focusing on Samos, Ms. Sourani and Mr. Kalin got in touch again.
As reported by protothema.gr, shortly after stronger seismic vibrationEleni Sourani, director of the prime minister’s diplomatic office, spoke by phone with Ibrahim Kalin, an undercover associate and spokesperson for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
According to information collected by protothema.gr Eleni Sourani Y Ibrahim Kalin They expressed their condolence on both sides for the strong earthquake that shook the North Aegean and the Smyrna region much worse than the island of Samos. His representative Tayyip erdogan did not express a request to the Greek side for assistance in dealing with the consequences of the earthquake.
However, Eleni Sourani’s communication with Ibrahim Kalin can be repeated later today. Nor could it be ruled out the activation of some kind of communication channel between Greece and Turkey at a higher level, later today or in the next 24 hours.
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