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A Turkish plan to bail out Greece?

After decades of disputes, can Turkey and Greece once again look to each other as allies?
A dinghy (R) with Syrian refugees is towed by a Greek coast guard patrol boat into the port on the Greek island of Kos, following a rescue operation in a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, early May 31, 2015. According to local media, an average of over 200 immigrants on small dinghies have been arriving in Kos every day in the last two months. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - RTR4Y74I

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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