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Daily Sabah (4 August 2025)

Türkiye is not going to take advantage of European loans or the bloc’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program if it “does not show practical examples of improving its relations with Greece,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday.

In an interview with Greece’s OEMA newspaper, Mitsotakis said he repeated that: “if Türkiye does not stop promoting the non-existent theory of gray zones, it will not enter the European Union's cheap loan program.”

Türkiye, which is a member of NATO but not the EU, is technically eligible to access EU defense industry financing and joint procurement programs as part of the bloc's 150-billion-euro ($176-billion) Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative.

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