German Chancellor Angela Merkel

The two leaders spoke in a teleconference

She said that Turkey was a NATO ally

The three leaders had phone contacts

The refugee/migration issues were the main topics of talk

Stoltenberg: Greece & Turkey agreed on technical dialogue to establish deconfliction mechanisms - Athens refutes

The message from Berlin to Ankara was that in the event of a military confrontation with Greece the EU member states will be obliged to assist Athens

The two leaders spoke on the phone on Tuesday

By far the greatest number of Trump's telephone discussions with an individual head of state were with Erdogan

"Turkey does not respect any of the commitments of the Berlin Conference and imports jihadists from Syria"

The measures have proved successful so far, with Germany maintaining a mortality rate of just 3,7% in the pandemic