Turkey demands extradition of coup plotters from Greece

ATHENS: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday demanded the extradition of suspected coup plotters from Greece, referring to eight soldiers who flew to northern Greece during the failed putsch last year. Speaking in Athens during a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Erdogan also called for an improvement in the ethnic status of Turks living in Greece. Earlier, Erdogan began a state visit to Greece on Thursday, the first by a Turkish head of state in 65 years, by needling his hosts with revisionist border talk and complaints about its treatment of Muslims.