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**Vomazoono** · 02-14-2010, 10:08 PM

To be fair though, Greeks may poo-poo the Turks all the time, but they've become co-dependant countries. It's kind-of like the relationship between the UK and France.

it's more than poo-poo. on more than one occasion on my short visit people expressed that Istanbul, which was once Constantinople, which was once Byzantium, was rightfully Greek. Oddly, the founder of modern day Turkey hails from Salonika (Thessaloniki) which is in northern Greece. I tend to agree with your assessment that they are dependent but it really hasn't developed the way it needs to because of the deep rooted dislike.

02-14-2010, 10:08 PM	#12
Vomazoono Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	To be fair though, Greeks may poo-poo the Turks all the time, but they've become co-dependant countries. It's kind-of like the relationship between the UK and France. it's more than poo-poo. on more than one occasion on my short visit people expressed that Istanbul, which was once Constantinople, which was once Byzantium, was rightfully Greek. Oddly, the founder of modern day Turkey hails from Salonika (Thessaloniki) which is in northern Greece. I tend to agree with your assessment that they are dependent but it really hasn't developed the way it needs to because of the deep rooted dislike.
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