ANKARA: Greece and Turkey must fight human trafficking together and coordinate the work of their police and coast guards to help tackle the refugee crisis, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wrote in a Turkish newspaper on Tuesday.
Tsipras is due to visit Turkey later on Tuesday, where he and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will attend a friendly soccer match between the two countries in Istanbul. They are scheduled to hold bilateral talks on Wednesday.
While the NATO allies have had difficult relations due to disputes over territorial borders in the Aegean Sea and the partition of Cyprus, Tsipras and Davutoglu have recently held regular telephone discussions about issues including migration and Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.
They last spoke after Turkey’s Nov. 1 election when Tsipras called Davutoglu to congratulate him on his AK Party’s victory, officials in Davutoglu’s office said.
