Greece’s defense minister has described the two junior army officers being held in Turkish custody as “hostages”.
Panos Kammenos, speaking during a visit to Bucharest on Friday, said: “I ask for the Romanian defence minister’s support for the immediate release of those European, NATO and Greek servicemen.”
“We are working for peace based on a request of all the countries of the region to show respect for international law, the [NATO] Alliance and whatever was signed and agreed,” Kammenos added, in comments reported by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
Lieutenant Aggelos Mitretodis and Sergeant Dimitrios Kouklatzis are being held at a prison in the town of Edirne (Andrianoupolis) after erroneously crossing the Turkish border in bad weather.
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