Turkey hopes Mediterranean talks can calm choppy waters with EU
(WorldNews Turkey)

BRUSSELS/ANKARA (REUTERS) - After a five-year hiatus marked by grievances over their rival claims to Mediterranean waters, Turkey resumes talks with Greece on Monday (Jan 25) in the first test of its hopes to reverse deteriorating relations with the European Union. While diplomats say that rebuilding trust will be a hard slog, the talks follow Turkey`s decision to stop its search for gas in disputed waters which angered Greece and Cyprus and a cooling of rhetoric around Ankara`s wider disputes with the EU. They could also pave the way for an imminent visit to Turkey by EU leaders. Both sides say there is political will to improve relations, but after years of rancour over refugees, human...