"One-way rivalry
January 5, 2007
Europe > Turkey > Istanbul
As I was traveling through Greece before coming to Turkey, I was repeatedly chided for wanting to come here. I knew Greeks and Turks weren't the best of buddies, but I was still surprised at the amount of lingering animosity felt by Greeks toward Turkey. Numerous times, when I told people I was on my way to Istanbul to visit an good friend from university, I was politely 'corrected': 'No, no, no, not Istanbul... It's Constantonopouli' (making me want to quote They Might Be Giants in reply). The capstone came during my stay on Mt. Athos, when one guy (who was admittedly a couple gyros short of a greek picnic) warned me against spending any time at all in Turkey, because almost all Turks are 'evil' and 'practice black magic'."
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