GREEK TURKISH RELATIONS

    This text aims to clarify some facts and perspectives on Greek Turkish relations, that seem to lead to confusion amid the turmoil of the war in Ukraine and the unpleasant signs of further escalations.    

Having always insisted on the need to distinguish between a long-term trend and temporary frustrations on Ankara's strategy towards Greece.   

As the visit of the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, fully understood the contest of the Euro-Atlantic alliance at the specific time of the  Ukrainian crisis would mean something to the neighbor's strategy.

For this to happen, systematic work with a serious indication of the tangible results must have preceded. it.   

Unfortunately, a recurring pattern is beginning to emerge.  In 2017, the first official visit of a Turkish president to Greece took place after 65 years at a time when the Erdogan government had become to isolate itself in the Westen camp. The, then, Greek government in Athens gave it a useful diplomatic step.  The visit had gone Thrace, a minority that Ankara denounced as Turkish

It is terrible that we have such neighbors like Turkey who daily broadcast messages saying that the Greek islands are Turkish   So it is not a surprise that Greek Turkish relations are deteriorating