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Turkey, Greece to use dialogue to calm Aegean tensions

Turkey, Greece to use dialogue to calm Aegean tensions | iNFOnews.ca
CORRECTS THE YEAR THE IMAGE WAS TAKEN In this Sept. 2016 photo provided by Greek Coast Guard the Gavdos 090 vessel is docked on an Aegean island. Greek authorities said on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed the Greek coast guard boat off a couple of uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea over which the two NATO allies nearly went to war in 1996. There were no injuries. (Greek Coast Guard via AP)

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Turkey and Greece have agreed to settle tensions through dialogue, a day after a Greek coast guard vessel was damaged in a collision with a Turkish patrol boat in the Aegean Sea.

Yildirim said he told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a late Tuesday telephone call that Greece must refrain from acts that strain ties, adding that the Aegean should be a “sea of friendship.”

He said: “We have reached an agreement that as of now (tensions) are settled politically and diplomatically in a more calm way, through mutual understanding and with the channels of dialogue constantly open.”

Yildirim said the Greek and Turkish military chiefs would meet on the margins of a NATO meeting in Brussels in May.

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