The Süddeutsche Zeitung in a new publication refers to the aid mission sent by Greece to Turkey after the disaster earthquake of 7.8 Richter, which it has claimed the lives of thousands of people.
THE sueddeutsche.de he mentions about the situation between the two states, that “the irony is that they have hostile relations, but they always help each other in disasters”. At the same time, he continues that “Athens and Ankara have been arguing for a long time about the Eastern Mediterranean, drilling, refugees. The last time, primarily Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalated the antagonism to the point of threatening to invade Greek islands which are located near the coasts of Turkey” the publication states. But, the Greeks are always ready to help either in earthquakes, like the one in October 2020 in Izmir with almost 120 dead, or in mining accidents, like the one four months ago in Northwestern Turkey.”
He also notes that “beyond political rhetoric, and the two peoples feel much more closely connected than appearances show. Many Greeks have family roots in Asia Minor and names of cities such as Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras – the epicenter of Monday’s strong earthquake – are known to many Greeks.”
“But everyday life connects even more than History. Like the Turkish children, the Greek children also learn at school how to behave when the earth trembles under their feet… “Each earthquake was a lesson for our country,” says the journalist Tasos Telloglou, reports the newspaper.
Furthermore, he adds that “after the devastating earthquakes that hit the area near Istanbul and Athens in 1999, the two sides helped each other. This also led to a political de-escalation. There was talk of “earthquake diplomacy”. Which wouldn’t hurt now either.”
Source: News Beast
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