Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the country is suspending negotiations with Greece, partly because of a dispute with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakis Mitsotakis and what Ankara calls a violation of airspace.
Last year, after a five-year break, the two NATO members resumed talks on solving problems in the Mediterranean Sea and other bilateral issues.
Erdogan announced in parliament that Turkey canceled the platform of bilateral cooperation with Greece, called the High-Level Strategic Council, and added that Ankara wants a foreign policy "that has a strong character", reports Reuters.
"You keep giving us shows with your planes," Erdogan said, alluding to a dispute over airspace over islands in the Aegean Sea.
He warned Greece not to try to play with Turkey.
"You will get tired and get stuck on the road. We are no longer conducting bilateral talks with you," Erdogan said.
The two countries have long been at odds over a number of issues, such as maritime borders, overlapping claims over continental shelves, airspace, migrants and ethnically divided Cyprus, the British agency recalls.
Tensions flared again last week when Erdogan said the Greek prime minister "no longer exists" for him, accusing him of trying to block the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey during a visit to the United States.
Mitsotakis told reporters on Tuesday that he had informed his European Union colleagues about Turkey's "aggressiveness" and "provocations that cannot be tolerated by Greece or the EU."
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