Turkey, Greece accept new confidence building measures

Turkey and Greece on Thursday announced a series of measures to build confidence between the two neighbors.

The deal was reached in the course of the meeting between Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

The five measures include joint educational programs at centers of Partnership for Peace with the contributions of other countries involved in the partnership. Students of War Academies will receive seminars from commanders of the two countries. Greek military division/brigade will be assigned to the 3rd Army Corps and a Turkish military division/brigade will be assigned to the Greek NATO Army Corps for educational purposes.

Mutual visits will take between the War Academies of the two countries. War Academies will conduct joint scientific events. They will hold joint academic programs, seminars, symposiums and publish articles for the military magazines/newspapers.