Difficult day after expected with Turkey

With the European Council last week seen as a milestone of the European Union's indecision to put the brake on Turkish provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Athens is drafting its next moves for the coming weeks and months. 

Although Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared to be satisfied with the reference to a series of possible sanctions, including possible implications for Turkey's customs union with the European Union and the instruction to the bloc's High Representative Josep Borrell to examine a possible expansion of their scope, it was clear that the Europeans wanted to wait and see how the United States would deal with Turkey after Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president on January 20.

This will take place in the wake of the ratification of a bill providing for US sanctions against Turkey over its acquisition of Russian S-400 air-defense...