Question for Greeks: Do you hate Turks?

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Spartan

Yes, I hate turks and I wish to live to see the death of turkey.

Takis

i hate Mondays

Kreta92

To hate is to not accept. We have a very clear understanding of their culture and reasoning as it is very much like ours. In social life turks and greeks get along because there is little difference in what we enjoy to do. However, because there is always an unspoken competition between Turkey and Greece, politicall, we do not get along very well.

WORLD PEACE.

emiliosailez

Question to the Turks: Do you hate Yunanis (Greeks) ?

makis

I don't hate Turks.
I grew up in Germany until the age of ten. I remember i used to have a Turkish friend and my mother exchanged recipes with Turkish women.
Lets hope Turkey will stabilize and become more democratic and their generals and politicians will not have as their top priority to invade Greece

AIK

Hating is one of those funny words. Clearly the world feels more for the Greeks than the Turks, as Constantinople, and Cyprus are still held hostage in a Turkish apartheid. I have met several Turks, and as individuals I don't hate them, but as a people they are still somewhat backwards and afraid to admit to their past (Armenian Massacre).

jp79to

I have absolutely no hatred for Turks. But I'd rather deal with your conclusions than your question. I'm not sure what you read in these answers, but it's not what I read. In the question for Turks, the consensus was that Greeks are good people but are stuck in the past. In the question for Greeks, the consensus was that Turks are good people but their government is dangerous. There was no hatred (with 1 or 2 exceptions in each thread, and both of those had received a lot of thumbs down). Where, exactly, did you see the ill will, my friend?

By the way, please avoid asking these sorts of questions in a travel section. It's so silly.

Jorge S

Fantastic answers! Wow! On both sides!

You could also ask, say, do the Portuguese hate the Spanish and do the Spanish hate the Portuguese, do the French hate the Germans and do the Germans hate the French and so forth.

The answer is only idiots hate. Another answer is there is Europe and Europe may somehow (despite all the incompetence in Brussels and Strasbourg) become bigger than the US sometime. Ouch!

Anyway, as a foreigner who lived in Athens, Greece, and who occasionally visited Turkey let me just add the following: the Turkish are very nice and don't seem like the kind of people to attack for no reason. Yes. And the Greeks (I do love Greece), with all their qualities, have one terrible fault as well - believing that all languages come from Greek, that everything cultural comes from Greece, that everything scientifical comes from Greece and that everyone else everywhere envies them . That's just silly really.

Leonarda

Again this question either on the greek or the turkish site.No we dont hate them, we dont hate anyone.The others hate us, because of our story, because of our culture, and because they know which is the truth in history. And I dont speak about turks only(even if there aare exceptions, and nice people who really want the peace)I speak about all the nations..Because theatre art, letters, medicine, and sciences come from us...and because when we had civilisation the others were not existing...So...we dont hate anyone...Just ignore them...

Xristina

I wouldn't say I hate them, but I definitely don't like them.

SanDiego21

no turks are great people, i hate malaccas

Charles_N

greeks are divided in two parts..the stupid ones..and the clever ones(as every nation)...i don't think a clever person would hate someone coz of his/her nationality...people must become wiser one day the whole nationalism thing is a sign of a very low IQ ;-) Aw and Turkish politicians would be much better if they would care more about their country and do things for it instead of dreaming of how to invade europe and propagandising things to their citizens ;-)

takis b

despite to what everyone says i believe there is not enough love between 2 nations.... someone asked if spanish people hate portuguese.... well..... i dont know ....... but ask british if they like french...or italians if they like swiss..... or even worst.... finish people and russians.... i am not using the verb hate....thats too heavy...but in the end those things seperating greeks from turks are enough to create a status of personna non gratta to each direction...i am not gonna say who's fault is.... but its existance is something non deniable...wars... ocupation.... fights about status quo in aegean sea
cyprus .... the desire of turkey to enter EU are only a small sample of what seperates 2 countries.... and something hard to be understood of many other europeans and especially citizens of USA.....2 nations....... 2 solid nations with different history and different religion... but same area to fit and share.... hard thing...
u wont find 1 average greek to say he hates turks.... besides u will find many of them travelling to our neighbors for vacations.. but on the other hand noone will say oh yes they are friends...
many years must pass for this possibilitty to become evidable..
And i will end my long and tiring answer( sorry eh?) saying that if politicians died tomorrow would be easier for people to find a way of co-existance rather than if politicians decide our way of standing on every matter
I am willing to discuss my opinion

fisikaellinida

Assimakis:"Lets hope Turkey will stabilize and become more democratic and their generals and politicians will not have as their top priority to invade Greece"

It goes exactly like that!!!When you are asking if we love Turks I take for granted that you are reffering to their politics!!!Right?So are you expecting from someone in here to tell you that we love them?

candygirl!

me frankly no!
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Ancient spirit

Hate is such a huge feeling! I don't feel hatred for anyone and i am very happy with it. It is this kind of questions that provoke people into saying bad things. I would very much appreciate it if you and everyone else never post questions such as these. We don't feel hate, neither us the Greeks, nor the Turks for us. There are some minorities, like Spartan above, who feel bad but most of them are uneducated and one sided. We coexist with the Turks and whenever they needed our help in natural disasters we were the first to help. I believe this is answering your question. And for the guy who said about us teaching history and civilisation that it silly, maybe he should be checked by a doctor or he should return to school once more and study a bit harder.( Well the Greeks, we are easily offended if anyone says anything about our great history and that is one of our weaknesses that we truly love).

Eleni H

I agree with Takis above!

I have seen this question here many times!
I believe that there are good and bad people everywhere!
What I can not stand are 2 categories of people:the stupid people and the arrogants.
Well,if I meet someone arrogant and stupid from Turkey I am sure that I won't like him as if I will meet someone arrogant and stupid from Greece.
I know people from Turkey that are really nice and of course I know people from Greece that are really nice.So,who is better or worse?Noone,that has to do with the individuals.So,how can I hate someone just because he is Turk?

ngiapapa

Once again: No, we don't!

I hate this question popping up all the time...
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Ancient greece

I agree with fisikaell above!

We have no problem with people that are ok!

Cassandra93

I love Turks

turk9988

Excuse me, we are not trying to invade Greece. If we wanted to do that, we could do it any time. Most of the problems between 2 countries were Greeks' fault. You keep mention the Asia Minor catastrophe... Why did that happen? It wouldn't have happened if the Greeks didn't get greedy and tried to invade Turkish territory in order to make their Megali Idea come true. Well, you got what you asked for. Same goes for Cyprus: If Greeks didn't try to make dictatorship in Cyprus like it was in Greece, and if they didn't jeopardise Turkish rights in Cyprus, we wouldn't have invaded Northern Cyprus either. See the pattern? Every time Greeks try to mess with us, we stand for ourselves and show who is stronger. So just stop messing with us and we will leave you alone. NEVER mess with Turks!

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