Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Tuesday had a telephone conversation with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias.

“Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias received a phone call from Türkiye Foreign Minister MevlutCavusoglu who informed him on the positive outcome of Greece’s request for the extradition to Greece of a Greek citizen, father of one of the victims of the accident in Tempi,” Greek Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter.

“Dendias thanked his counterpart for Türkiye’s positive & rapid response. The decision was signed by Türkiye’s Minister of Justice,” the Ministry added.

The father of the 28-year-old train driver, who lost his life in Tempi, has been extradited from Türkiye to Greece, the Greek Foreign Minister announced today in a post on Twitter.

Ankara’s decision not only to allow the imprisoned father of an off-duty train driver who was killed in last week’s deadly rail accident in central Greece to attend his son’s funeral but also to serve the rest of his sentence in a Greek prison was seen in Athens. (ILKHA)