Soldiers surrending on the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul during the attempted coup on July 15 Gokhan Tan/GettyThe Greek prime minister appears to have paved the way for the extradition of a group of Turkish soldiers who fled after this summer’s military putsch by declaring that his country would neither tolerate nor harbour “coup collaborators”. Alexis Tsipras made the remarks yesterday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where the leftist Greek leader met President Erdogan of Turkey for the first time since the coup attempt on July 15. The meeting came hours after police officials in Athens rejected asylum requests from three of the eight Turkish officers who hijacked a military helicopter…

Source: The Times September 22, 2016 10:52 UTC