Turkish, Greek foreign ministers discuss consulate-related matters

Turkish, Greek foreign ministers discuss consulate-related matters

Turkish and Greek overseas ministers spoke over the telephone on Tuesday, based on diplomatic sources.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Nikos Dendias addressed consulate-related issues, as the highest diplomats additionally mentioned extradition of a Greek citizen detained in Türkiye.

Dendias, for his half, mentioned on Twitter that Çavuşoğlu knowledgeable him “on the positive outcome” of Athens’ request for the extradition to Greece of a Greek citizen, father of one of many victims of the accident in Tempi.”

“I thanked my counterpart for Türkiye’s positive & rapid response. The decision was signed by Türkiye’s Minister of Justice,” he added.

Türkiye has introduced that it’s going to enable the switch of the daddy of a Greek machinist who died in Feb. 28 practice accident, in keeping with a request to Turkish authorities.

The determination got here after a petition by Dimitris Nalbantis, the daddy of machinist Nikos Nalbantis, for his switch to a Greek jail was obtained by the Turkish Justice Ministry and forwarded to its counterpart within the neighboring nation.

Nalbantis is serving a sentence for narcotics-related offenses at a facility in Türkiye’s northwestern Tekirdağ province.

On Feb. 28, a passenger practice collided with a freight practice across the city of Tempi within the northern Larissa province of Greece.

The official demise toll stands at 57, together with many college college students and 9 traincrew members.

Source: www.anews.com.tr