Hellenic MOD: Completion of Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos' official visit to Israel

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The Minister of National Defence Dimitris Avramopoulos paid an official visit to Israel. This visit concluded the Greek-Israeli ministerial meeting which took place on October 8, 2013 and was not attended by the Defence Ministers of the two countries, since the Israeli Minister was in a scheduled visit abroad. Moreover, the visit that Ehud Barak as Israel’s Defence Minister paid to Greece two years ago was reciprocated.

Friendship of Turkish-Egyptian people is eternal, crisis is temporary. Turkish FM, Ahmet Davutoglu

Ahmet Davutoglu said the reaction given to Egypt is in accordance with the essence of reciprocity.
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ANKARA (AA) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged Saturday that there may be crisis between countries, but the countries must always respond those crisis in accordance with diplomatic gestures.
"The news on Reuters while our ambassador was in the Foreign Ministry did not accord with diplomatic customs," Davutoglu stated by referring to Egypt's declaring Turkish ambassador in Cairo as 'persona non-grata'.
"We know both to handle the crisis and to reinforce our friendship after the crisis," Davutoglu said.