Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by phone on Friday, Athens and Ankara said – rare such contact for two neighbors at odds over a range of issues.
Mitsotakis and Erdogan addressed ways of handling the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, the reopening of borders, and the re-establishment of tourist flows, a statement from Mitsotakis’s office said.
“Mr Mitsotakis and Mr Erdogan agreed to keep the bilateral channels of communication open,” it said, a line re-iterated in the statement from the Turkish presidency.
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