No agreement has been reached from the military-level talks, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. Neighbours and NATO allies Greece and Turkey have been locked for weeks in a tense standoff in the eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey is prospecting the seabed for energy reserves in an area Greece claims as its own continental shelf. Ankara said it backed Stoltenberg's initiative for military and technical talks and called on Greece to do the same. Simulated dogfights between Greek and Turkish fighter pilots have multiplied over the Aegean Sea and the eastern Mediterranean. Russia maintains a sizeable naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean and regularly conducts naval manoeuvres there.

Source: CBC News September 04, 2020 14:03 UTC