 Since 9 July 2019 Dendias has been serving as the Foreign Minister of Greece in Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's New Democracy-led government which won the 2019 Greek legislative election.In August 2019, Dendias summoned the Turkish ambassador to “express Greece’s deep discontent” with the arrival of sixteen boats carrying about 650 people from Turkey on Greece’s Lesbos island.In October 2019, Dendias condemned Turkey's invasion of Syria, stating that "Turkey is making a big mistake".