Istanbuller wrote:I am talking about present day events. Ankara is not happy with Greece's cooperation with Turkey's rivals in Europe and Middle East. I am sure opposition parties would think the same if they were in power.
Your post kinda proves a point that Noemon is making. Europe very rarely thinks in terms such as rivals or enemies. We just live and let others live, that is it basically. Sure we have rivals in the economic sense of competition but we do not have enemies in the sense of military or expansionist. Even economic side of things has been moving closer to cooperation and figuring out our problems although Trump put a wrench in to it. And perhaps Brexit a bit. Sometimes our leaders can step of line but that is usually an exception rather than the norm.
If somebody steps out of line and breaks that balance then we sanction them. Even leaders among ourselves if you look at Poland or Hungary by the way. Your attitude is similar to Russia honestly. State under siege, enemies around you, must expand to preserve our peace, must unite behind a strongman, etc. Stupid ideas made by men who wish to hold to power and trick their own people in to submission. Those ideas are regressive and breed corruption as they have always done before.
To be honest, not many outside of Greece or the catholic/orthodox churches really cares about this. Most take notice though at what Erdogan is doing. Cheap tricks to stay in power. It doesn't fix any of the Turkey problems in the economy or society. I mean , yeah, i guess you hurt the feelings of religious people and may be Greeks. How does that help the Turkish people or their wellbeing etc?