July 2016 Turkish military asylum incident in Greece

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that it "wasn't the easiest of meetings" and that he raised the issue of the two Greek soldiers held without charge in the neighboring country since March.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday reiterated claims that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had promised to see to the extradition of eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after the coup attempt in the summer of 2016.

A Greek committee on Thursday approved the granting of political asylum to the third of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece following a failed coup in Turkey two years ago.

All eight servicemen were released from administrative custody in May and are in a secret location to ensure their safety.

In comments about the case of the eight Turkish serviceman seeking asylum in Greece, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday indicated that Athens had come under pressure from European leaders not to extradite the men.

A Turkish court on June 19 ruled that two Greek soldiers charged with espionage and illegally entering the country would remain in jail.

Turkey has suspended its migrant readmission deal with Greece, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu agency, days after Greece released from prison four Turkish soldiers who fled there after a 2016 attempted coup.

Turkey has suspended the migrant readmission deal with Greece in response to a Greek court's decision to release eight former Turkish servicemen who fled to the country one day after Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on June 6.

Turkey has suspended a migrant readmission deal it had signed with Greece in response to a Greek court ruling that refused to extradite the eight Turkish soldiers who fled to the country after the failed coup in 2016, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, according to reports in Daily Sabah and Reuters.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has expressed its condemnation of Greece's repeated refusal to extradite the eight fugitives who had fled to Greece and were granted asylum by the Greek Council of State and released, despite being accused of taking part in the coup attempt of July 15. 

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily to news Monday that the last four Turkish servicemen of the eight who fled to Greece after the coup attempt in 2016 were released after the 18 months of maximum detention expired, with a spokesman accusing Athens of becoming "a refuge for coup plotters."