Need for dialogue: Turkey, Greece, and the possibility of reconciliation. From: Harvard International Review | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Constantinos Stephanopoulos | COPYRIGHT 1998 Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SULEYMAN DEMIREL is President of Turkey.

Turkish-Greek relations today seem far from the splendor of the days of Ataturk-Venizelos in the 1930s or those of Menderes-Karamanlis in the 1950s, when talks between the two countries were characterized by friendship and cooperation. At the height of peace, Venizelos, while still Prime Minister of Greece, nominated his one-time battleground enemy Ataturk for the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, seemingly ages from that golden era in Tu...

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