Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We agreed not to involve third countries in our dispute with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, despite this, he visited the United States last week, spoke to Congress and warned them who gave us the F-16 . “

“He no longer exists for me. I will never agree to date him. We will go our own way with respected politicians,” he explained at a press conference after the weekly meeting of the Turkish Cabinet of Ministers.

Turkey and Greece are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and disagree on a range of issues, including maritime borders, airspace and ethnically divided Cyprus.

During his visit to the United States, where he met with US President Joe Biden and senior US officials last week, Mitsotakis noted that “Greece will begin procedures to purchase F-35 fighter jets from the US by 2030.”

After Erdogan’s speech, Greek government spokesman Yiannis Oikonomo responded that “Mitsotakis defends Greek rights and international law, and that Greece’s foreign policy is also based on his alliances,” adding, “We will not enter into a dispute with the Turkish leadership. Our politics is the politics of principles.”