TURKEY AND GREECE: AN APPENDIX AND A LETTER

Year 1997, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 0 - 0, 01.09.1997

Osman Olcay

Abstract

For more than half of the forty odd years the author of this article spent in the Turkish foreign service he was dealing with multilateral rather than bilateral relations. He had no direct experience of Greece, its people, its bureaucracy nor its politicians. This does not mean, of course, that as a Turkish career diplomat, he could forever avoid dealing with never-ending Turco-Greek problems. The following paragraphs and pages will amply prove that no Turkish diplomat—nor to that effect any Greek diplomat—can claim immunity from this syndrome.