Turkish FM Fidan: In 2024, we maintained the positive dynamic in our relations with Greece

Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan referred to Greek-Turkish relations in a press conference to foreign journalists, reviewing Türkiye's foreign policy in 2024 and its goals for 2025.
Among other issues, Fidan spoke at the Istanbul press conference of the "positive dynamic" achieved and maintained with Greece in 2024, "keeping our dialog alive at high level, with mutual visits" and he expressed the hope it would continue at the same rate in 2025. "We continue to examine our existing disagreements with Greece in the context of bilateral dialog mechanisms that work well. It is in the interest of both countries and of the region that we act in the spirit of good neighborliness," he noted.
The Turkish FM added that problems could be resolved despite the historical and political past between the two countries, since "a different reality has now taken shape," and further said that both the Greek and Turkish leadership wished to resolve issues.
Asked to comment about the lack of progress on the Cyprus issue despite the positive agenda between Greece and Türkiye, Fidan said that ideally he would like to see Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, Greece, and Türkiye all resolve their issues together "and transform the Aegean and the Mediterranean into a region of peace, develoment, and prosperity. And there is no reason this should not happen."
AMNA