Top Turkish and Greek diplomats agree to hold exploratory dialogue on eastern Mediterranean row, in meeting on sidelines of Global Security Forum in Slovakia
Tensions over natural gas rights escalated in August when Turkey sent a seismic survey ship and a small navy flotilla into contested waters near a Greek island close to Turkey's coast.
At an event at the forum before their meeting, Cavusoglu criticised Greece's "maximalist claims" in the sea, using maps to show "there is nothing left for Turkey" if Greek demands are accepted.
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