Greek official talks plainly about Turks: Seeks `normal' ties, not `friendly' ones.(World)

From: The Washington Times | Date: April 10, 1996| Author: Kaplan, Refet | Copyright information

Diplomats are rarely known for freely speaking their minds.

Not so with the new foreign minister of Greece, who during his visit to Washington this week offered some blunt talk about his country's differences with Turkey.

"We don't want to love them," Theodore Pangalos said of the Turks during a wide-ranging interview yesterday with reporters and editors of The Washington Times. "I don't imagine any Greek of my generation wants to love them."

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