Turkey is not hostile to Greek intentions to build a wall across its Turkish border to prevent the illegal passage of persons, stated PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday.

"As a matter of fact, it's not right to call that 'a wall' - it's just a barrier," stated Erdogan, reiterating Turkey's commitment to step up measures against human trafficking.

The Turkish PM said he was alarmed at figures of traffic that his Greek colleague George Papandreou quoted upon meeting him Friday in the northeast city of Erzurum.

Despite the cordial appearances, Friday talks between the Turkish and Greek PMs are reported to have been quite tense and to have covered the hole gamut of the problematic relations between the two countries.

For instance, Papandreou openly accused Turkey of infringing of its airspace and sharply denounced what he plainly called "the occupation" of northern Cyprus.

On his part, Erdogan expressed frustration at lack of palpable progress towards Turkey's eventual joining of the EU, suggesting that EU leaders frankly say that Turkey is unwanted, if that is the case.

Saturday Erdogan also addressed the common problem shared with Greece about waters from the Maritsa, Arda and Tundzha rivers, which regularly cause floods downstream in the two countries.

All three rivers have their sources and main lengths in the territory of Bulgaria. The Turkish PM called for joint actions of all three countries.

Erdogan announced that to address the matter a trilateral Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian meeting of Ministers of Environment, followed up by a meeting of PMs, is scheduled for the near future.

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