Erdoğan to mark first presidential visit to Greece since 1952

December 02 2017 14:28:35

Erdoğan to mark first presidential visit to Greece since 1952

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Greece on Dec. 7-8, the presidency's press information center confirmed on Dec. 2.

Erdoğan -- upon the invitation of Greece's President Prokopis Pavlopoulos -- will embark on the two-day official visit, where bilateral relations and regional issues will be discussed.

He will be the first Turkish president to visit Greece in 65 years.

Celal Bayar was the last Turkish president to visit Greece, in 1952.

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