Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with US Foreign Secretary Anthony Blinken on Monday at 7:30 pm.

It is noted that Mr. Blinken will arrive in Athens after his visit to Ankara, where tomorrow he will meet, including with the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Earlier, the US Secretary of State announced an additional $100 million in aid to Turkey for victims of the earthquake that killed nearly 45,000 people in the country and neighboring Syria.

Blinken, who traveled to Turkey to show US support for his NATO ally, arrived from Munich, Germany, where he attended a security conference, at Incirlik Air Base in the country’s southeast.

It is from this base, where about 1,500 American soldiers are stationed, that part of the humanitarian aid, mainly American, is sent to the zones affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on February 6. It was here that Anthony Blinken took off to make a helicopter flight over the affected province of Hatay (southeast).

The earthquake is the biggest disaster in modern Turkey and, at last count, 40,689 people died in one country alone.