Opposition calls for emergency meeting of Parliament committee to discuss Turkey

New Democracy has asked for an immediate session of Parliament's defence committee so MPs can discuss the latest developments in Greek-Turkish relations.

The conservatives have proposed that the committee should hold an emergency session behind closed doors after a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek patrol boat off the coast of the Imia islets in the Aegean on Monday night.

On Tuesday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry claimed in a statement that the islets belong to Turkey, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece and Cyprus not to "step out of line" in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

"These are the latest links in the chain of provocations that have followed Erdogan's visit to our country," said New Democracy's shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos. He called on the government to immediately inform Greece's partners and allies.
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