Well it all started to go wrong 3000 years ago when the mainland Greeks under King Agamemnon united to invade Troy and its from that point on that things have never been the same. Troy was of course part of the Hellenic world but they had rebelled and of course modern Turkey is not even 100 years old. Modern Turkey claims (wrongly) to be the continuation of the Ottoman Empire and the Greeks say they are the true Byzantines. In other words the psychology behind the conflict will never help them get on. The modern Turks are seen as from Hellenic origin who converted at some stage out of necessity all rather complex.
The reality is that they could both get all rather well but of course that would not suit the US and British arms industries who benefit from selling both lots of weapons of destruction. Very unfortunate.
nick venedi
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