"Poor record
Nine years after former Socialist prime minister Costas Simitis inaugurated his step-by-step rapprochement policy with Turkey and six years after the European Council at Helsinki took the landmark decision of awarding Ankara EU-candidate status, the mood among Greek foreign-policy makers is far from triumphant. The single fruit to have been reaped from Greece’s repeated overtures to Ankara and the government’s support of Turkey’s EU ambitions is that tension in bilateral relations has eased. The gain, however, is mutual and cannot be considered a concession on Ankara’s part."
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