Countdown to its arrival Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Athens, with both sides coming to the negotiating table in a positive mood.

it is about a “lightning visit” of about five hours in Athens, as SKAI reporter Yiannis Kantelis emphasizes. The Turkish president will arrive at “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport from Turkey at 11 am with three aircraft. They will transport him, his partners and also the cars he will use.

THE VISIT OF ERDOGAN TO ATHENS

TIME 11.00
ARRIVAL OF TAGIP ERDOGAN

Mr. Erdogan will be welcomed at the airport by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Gerapetritis.

TIME 11.30
MEETING OF K. SAKELLAROPOULO – T. ERDOGAN

The visit of the Turkish president to the President of the Hellenic Republic will last about three quarters, and then he will head to the neighboring Maximos Palace.

TIME 11.30
BILATERAL MINISTERIAL MEETINGS – MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

At the time when Mr. Erdogan meets with Mrs. Sakellaropoulou, 10 Greek ministers will meet with their seven Turkish counterparts. They will discuss all the bilateral agreements that will be made, but the two defense ministers will have a separate meeting.

TIME 11.30
MEETING N. DENDIA – YASSAR GULER AT LAED

Mr. Dendias and Mr. Guler will meet at the Officers’ Club in Rigillis.

TIME 12.15
MEETING K. MITSOTAKI – ERDOGAN G. GERAPETRITIS – CH. FINTAN MARIA BOURA – TS. KILITS (Maximou)

At the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting in Maximou, in addition to the foreign ministers, Mrs. Maria Boura and Mr. Tsagatai Kilits, the two diplomatic advisers of the two leaders, as you did in Vilnius and New York, will be present.

TIME 13.00
STATEMENTS OF K. MITSOTAKI – T. ERDOGAN

There will be no questions after the two leaders’ statements. By that time, all the ministers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the LAED will have arrived at Maximos, at which point the Supreme Cooperation Council will begin.

13.30
MEETING OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF COOPERATION

During the meeting of the Supreme Council, when the two leaders and government officials will have lunch, the agreements that have been in the works lately will be ratified.

SIGNING OF 10 – 20 AGREEMENTS – JOINT DECLARATIONS

The agreements will be signed between the two states, as well as organizations of the two states. Concern:

  • ECONOMY
  • Commercial relations
  • HEALTH
  • EDUCATION
  • TOURISM
  • SPORT
  • RESEARCH – TECHNOLOGY
  • farming sector

As far as migration is concerned, bilateral issues such as the exchange of officers in Lesbos and Smyrna between the Greek and Turkish coastguards have been “locked”, it is still under negotiation as SKAI is informed, the visa to Turkish citizens to stay up to seven days in the Greek islands, and this negotiation is between Athens and Brussels, as it needs the Community “green light”. A competent source said that an effort is being made to “something even better” in immigration.

16.00
DEPARTURE OF T. ERDOGAN