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Erdogan in Athens Greek, Turkish PMs stress wish for closer ties; Cypriot president blasts US

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Athens last night for the first official visit by a Turkish leader in 16 years.
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Minister assures USA on Olympics
Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, who was in America when a triple bomb attack damaged a police station in Athens, met with several US officials and spoke with news media yesterday, assuring them that the blasts had nothing to do with the Olympics and that Greece was capable of hosting safe Games.
Army chief pays for fatal accidents
The chief of the army's staff resigned yesterday following Wednesday's freak training accident in which a tank careered out of control into a group of young army officers at a camp near Ioannina, killing two and injuring another two.
Lagadas manhunt nets quarry
Following a three-day manhunt by 500 officers, police in northern Greece yesterday caught a man suspected of shooting two brothers and abducting their sister, his former fiancee.
Cop, cashier held for heist
A policeman has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring with a bank cashier to steal hundreds of thousands of euros at gunpoint from a western Athens bank last month, police said yesterday.
Irish mail to Cyprus may end up on Crete
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland, current president of the European Union, has issued a postage stamp which appears to confuse new EU member Cyprus with Crete.
IN BRIEF
Two 'Palestinians' get 5 years each for trafficking 66 immigrants : A Cretan court yesterday passed down five-year jail sentences on two men found guilty of smuggling...
Defense appeal for presiding judge to be removed due to 'bias' : An Athens court trying five suspected members of the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) terrorist group is today due to respond...
Blaze ravages 40 hectares : A team of firemen aided by four firefighting aircraft and a helicopter yesterday afternoon managed to bring under control a fire...
Railway disruptions : There will be no service between Omonia and Attiki stations on the Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP) tomorrow...
High priest : A 44-year-old priest yesterday faced a prosecutor after police found just under 5 grams of hashish...
Prostitutes protest : A group of around 100 prostitutes demonstrated in central Athens yesterday...
Bus accident : Eight passengers on an Athens bus sustained minor injuries after being hit by an tourist coach...
Embezzlement : The fund for the self-employed (TEBE) has taken legal action against a former employee...
Mauthausen : Mikis Theodorakis's musical composition «Mauthausen» is to be performed at a memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp...


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EDITORIAL
Safety regulations
The resignation of Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Panayiotis Harvalas - said to have been requested by Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos - was not a propitiatory act in an attempt to close the case of the three soldiers that were killed in military accidents, but a symbolic act which acknowledges the extent of the problem and the need to take coordinated remedial action.
COMMENTARY
Reciprocity
Talks between Karamanlis and Erdogan are expected to have a strong effect on bilateral ties, but Greece will not only rely on what its guest has to say. Accepting the Turkish premier's request to visit Thrace was a political wager. On the other hand, this will be an opportunity to test Erdogan's intentions and political will, evaluating his message to the Muslim minority and asking for a legitimate trade-off, like the reopening of the Halki theological school. Erdogan's visit comes at a crucial time - less because of the Cyprus referenda and the island's EU accession, and more because Greek-Turkish relations are at a crucial turning point.
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