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Turkey’s Erdogan heads to Athens for official Greece visit

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Turkey's Erdogan heads to Athens for official Greece visit

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FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 file photo Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras joke before a bilateral meeting during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Erdogan will arrive in Athens on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 as Greece hoping to improve often frosty ties between the two neighbors and NATO allies at a time when Turkey's relations are being tested with both the European Union and the United States. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP, file)

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan is heading to Athens for the first official visit to Greece by a Turkish president in decades. His arrival has been overshadowed by comments he made on the eve of his visit concerning a 1920s peace treaty that determined borders in the region.

    Erdogan was due to arrive in Athens Thursday morning for talks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and other officials, before heading to the northeast of the country Friday to meet with the country's Muslim minority.

    Greek officials were alarmed by Erdogan's comments in an interview with Greece's Skai television Wednesday in which he said the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which determined current Greek-Turkish borders among other issues, should be "updated."

    Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said the interview "raises serious concerns and questions."

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