A Turkish plan to bail out Greece?
After decades of disputes, can Turkey and Greece once again look to each other as allies?
While international attention is focused on Turkey’s Syrian border, the Turkish people are focused on their other border, the one with Greece. They watched closely July 5 as the Greek people voted no to the European bailout program.
The fact that the Turks felt compassion toward their Greek neighbors is ironic given the bitterness of their relations (at times bordering on going to war) in the last decades of the 20th century.
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