Foreign ministry spokesperson Konstantinos Koutras on Tuesday responded to reporters’ questions over claims in a portion of the Turkish press regarding an alleged link between recent terrorist attacks in Turkey and Greece:

“The heavy death toll Greece has paid due to terrorism precludes even commenting on such reports, which have long and far surpassed the limits of the most imaginative and bizarre conspiracy theories.”

Turkish media outlets had claimed last week that the two terrorists killed in a raid at the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse on Tuesday after gunning down prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz made a call to senior officials of the Revolutionary People’s Liberal Party-Front (DHKP-C) in Greece.