Soleimani

Turkey is going to great lengths to reduce tensions between the U.S. and Iran, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Jan. 5 following the recent killing of a top Iranian commander in a U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has long been preparing for his 7 January meeting with US President Donald Trump and is as past Greek leaders pinning his hopes on a clear statement of US support for the inviolability of regional countries' land and maritime borders which Turkey is disputing in the case of Greece and Cyprus.