Hi
my name is serdar andreas alexander living in Scandinavia a product of Turkish father and a Greek (Rum) mother :)
I can't speak Greek (shame on me) but my mother can't speak too. I'm not anti of anybody but some policies. I support more than peace; a brotherhood or united power such as Mediterranean/Aegean Union which can connect us to each other.

European Union is not safe in my opinion and I believe it won't be exist in future.
The new generation from the both sides are more like well intentioned, peace loving and in need of creating dialouge.

I as a Greek-Turk completely bored to see old mentality in the both sides. Politicians promise for a permenant solution but it's not happening after they're elected.
I'm also bored to see Aegean air/sea field clashes and spending billions of dollars for aiming which is fckng ODD.
I hate to see seperated Cyprus and their old fart politicians who can't unite that small island.
I hate to see Crete illegaly invaded by Arabs (!!!!) and others currently transferring drugs and illegal aliens into other european union states.
I also hate to see both Turkey and Greece is being provaked by others (such as US) thus they can sell some aims to both sides.

Can't we just get real and stop these useless childish conflicts, create a brotherhood?
I know we are somehow racemixed people; good or bad, somehow we are mixed people with quite similar culture, tragically occupied each others homelands, killed millions of us (!), declared idiotic wars (provoked by 3rd persons) and ended up here.

We guys were about to fight against each other just because of some rocks in Aegean sea it's fckng stupid.

I really hate to see us fighting for very stupid reasons like for Baklava, Dolmades, Raki, Pilafi etc..

What's our problem?

note: I'm an Atheist since my childhood extremely against any sort of religious extremism

Kind Regards...

Welcome aboard e machine.
I agree with alot of what you say.

thanks mickey
btw I apologize for my poor english skills; I've just learnd that you're in Australia (:
I'm here to share my personal experiences about being Turkish-Greek in Turkey and Greece.

E kmachine I'm sure your English is much better than my scandanavian(swedish,norwegian,Danish)skills.
nevertheless you convey your point of view in a clear and easily understood manner.

wellcome emachine.

welcome to the forum emachine

Welcome!

Hoş geldin emachine.

C'mon join the party.

Bar is on the left side. Enjoy...

Are you the guy who started a similar topic on the Greek-Turkish friendship group on FB?

In any case welcome chief.

In my father's village there was a long vendetta between the two largest clans. It went on for many generations and many people were killed. Others left the island in order to live a normal life without constant fear. Just over 100 years ago both sides had had enough. They decided to end it with marriages across the dividing line. Now nobody remembers how or why it started. I, and many others, have the blood of both families in our veins.
Those marriages were forced and perhaps unhappy, I don't really know. But they required submission not courage. Your parents got together across the line out of choice and that took courage and love. Respect.

Do not despair about Greco-Turkish relations. We will get there in the end. Our problems are not really that great. It will take time though because the Turks are very stubborn and will not admit it is all their fault and that kofte comes from the Greek kopton or kofton meaning chopped up

Sevan Nisanyan's etymology dictionary says it comes from the persian word "kōfta" (means mashed).

hosgeldin/kalos ilthes!

(btw EU will live more than you and me )

Persians owned and reowned by Greeks but they never give up ! now its kofta from kopton

welcome babeaa

remember greeks r the good guys and turks r the bad ones here

Yes if we force, the Turkish word "il" comes from the Greek word "Poli" then.

Yes and you and I will lose 10 kilos in a week