 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".Furthermore, about Turkey's plans for the creation of a safe zone in Northern Syria for the Syrian refugees to be resettled, at the expense of the local Kurdish population he stated that it "is illegal since the resettlement of immigrants must comply with some basic principles