Turkish fm invites Greek counterpart in ambassadors meeting

ATHENS (A.A) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called his Greek counterpart Stavros Dimas on the phone, and invited him in ambassadors meeting in Turkey. Dimas said he would not be able to attend the meeting due to his busy schedule, according to Greek foreign ministry. Annual meeting of ambassadors will be held in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne. Davutoglu and Dimas also discussed the recent statements of former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz. Some newspapers quoted Mesut Yilmaz as saying that "Turkey made a forest fire retaliation to Greece." According to papers, Athens reacted to Yilmaz's remarks and Greek papers wrote stories that "Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) was behind the forest fires in the Aegean in mid-1990s." and "Prime minister confessed." The papers wrote that Turkey should illuminate the incident and compensate Greece's losses. Also, they wrote that Athens would file a lawsuit regarding Yilmaz's remarks that "setting forests on fire in Greece was a state secret." Yilmaz denied the stories and said they were just a misinterpretation.