A Greece-Turkey summit with results?

Greece wants to keep relations with its difficult neighbor and nominal NATO ally Turkey as drama-free as possible in the run-up to the meeting of the bilateral Supreme Cooperation Council in Turkey toward the end of January.

In the meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will determine whether it is possible for the two sides to negotiate the delimitation of maritime zones and the continental shelf or whether the matter will be referred to international arbitrage.

The difficulty in starting negotiations, or agreeing to arbitrage, is reflected in the different conceptions on what the agenda should be: While Greece insists the agenda should only include the maritime zones and the continental shelf, Turkey insists on bringing up on what Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was the latest to invoke as "a totality of issues...