"The ‘new’ Turkey and Greece
By Nikos Konstandaras It is a fact of life that whatever happens in Turkey has a direct impact in Greece. So tight is the two countries’ entanglement that Ankara’s relations with other capitals influence Athens’s relations with third countries and organizations, as we have seen repeatedly in the case of the United States, NATO and the EU. Sometimes, Turkey’s direct impact on Greece is minimal, usually because our neighbor is preoccupied with some of the other major issues that concern it. But the dynamics of conflict within Turkey sooner or later translate into spectacular foreign policy. This is sometimes a consequence of Turkey’s sense of insecurity; sometimes it stems from a sense of its being the dominant power in the region; often it is an extension of the power game being played in Turkey’s domestic politics."
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