ANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey will make a groundbreaking trip to Greece next week as the first Turkish head of state to visit the country in 65 years, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday.

Mr. Erdogan is scheduled to visit Greece on Dec. 7-8, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Hakan Cavusoglu, announced this week. A Greek government spokesman said, however, that the visit had yet to be confirmed.

Mr. Erdogan has visited Greece before — twice as prime minister in 2004 and 2010 — and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim visited in June, but there has not been a visit by a head of state since Turkey’s third president, Celal Bayar, made a trip in 1952.

Relations between the two Mediterranean neighbors have been antagonistic for much of the past century. The 1990s brought a thaw when Greece extended humanitarian assistance after an earthquake, and Turkey’s negotiations to join the Europe Union brought them closer.