The AP Interview: Mitsotakis hopes for better relations with Turkey if reelected as Greek premier

By ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press

VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview that he will extend “a hand of friendship” to the winner of the upcoming Turkish election and try to build on the momentum of recently reduced tensions. But Mitsotakis told the AP on Thursday that he hopes the next Turkish government will reconsider its approach to the West. Mitsoakis says that if he is reelected in Greece’s own election on May 21  he will maintain what he has called Greece’s strict but fair migration policy. That includes robust border patrols on land and at sea and the building of a fence along Greece’s land border with Turkey.