"....All this follows a well-trodden path. Ever since the then prime minister Andreas Papandreou met his counterpart Turgut Ozal at Davos (a meeting subsequently regretted), we have heard the four subsequent Greek premiers rhapsodize about a return to the spirit of the former Greek leader Eleftherios Venizelos and his Turkish counterpart Kemal Ataturk and forging a bilateral rapprochement. This, combined with Turkey’s European prospects, would turn the Aegean from a tectonic fault of military tension into a bridge of cooperation.
Despite the friendly gestures, a better bilateral relationship remains as deceptive as the horizon; the closer you get the further away it seems to move. And the “buy of the century” might better be called the buy of the four-year term."
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