Greeks and Turks Are Rediscovering Their Shared Histories

Despite a tumultuous history, the two countries now share an undeniable growing sense of mutual interest. Petty appeals to nationalism and othering are losing ground among ordinary Greeks and Turks.

by Kutay Onayli

Twenty years after the two countries almost went to war over a tiny islet in the middle of the Aegean Sea, relations between Turkey and Greece have become pleasantly boring.

Mainstream politicians no longer exchange veiled threats or make boogeymen out of one another. Dreadfully tired, quasi-historical debates on the origins of products su…