Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, who participated in the meeting of the European-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers, said that there was no problem between the government and the army and that, “The army is ours. There is no problem."

Greek Foreign Minister Yorgo Papandreou told a press conference that Turkey should implement all the criteria valid for the other candidate countries and in this framework the Turkish army should play the same role with the armies of other democratic countries. Papandreou said; In democracies, this institution are under the service of the governments elected by democratic means, not the contrary.