Greece's Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has sked Turkey o to issue Interpol red notices for Turkish gang members wanted at home, carrying out killings in Greece.
The request, made in talks with Turkey's interior minister, illustrates how the two rivals still cooperate on policing even as they clash over the Aegean.
The meeting with Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci matters because it is one of the few areas where Athens and Ankara find common ground. The two NATO members dispute maritime boundaries, airspace and the status of Aegean islands, and rhetoric has often run hot. Security cooperation has become a way to keep a working relationship alive. The talks followed a high-level cooperation council held in Ankara last February, and Mr. Ciftci, newly appointed, was visiting Greece for the first time in that role.
Both sides have practical reasons to talk. Greece is the main European entry point for migrants crossing from Turkey, and smuggling networks operate across the border. Greece also says Turkish criminal groups are active on its soil, endangering innocent people. Mr. Chrysochoidis asked for red notices so that suspects with Turkish arrest warrants can be detained at once and sent home.
Greece proposed restarting regular expert meetings on the land border, strengthening the Kapitan Andreevo joint contact center on the Bulgarian frontier, and creating an early-warning system for suspicious movements. It also pressed on firearms trafficking, noting a growing flow of altered weapons linked to Turkey.
Mr. Ciftci called the visit high-level, said cooperation is satisfactory but should grow, and invited Mr. Chrysochoidis to a trilateral meeting with Bulgaria in Turkey in November.
The tone follows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remark last month that Turkey is "not an enemy" of Greece.