On 7 December 2023, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Greece, where he met with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The two leaders signed a series of bilateral agreements and a Declaration of Friendship (the Athens Declaration). But while the trip was hailed as a breakthrough in relations between the two countries, which have long been strained over various issues, many wonder if this is merely another in a long line of such efforts to mend relations.

Greece and Turkey - now officially known as the Republic of Turkiye - have had a long and difficult relationship. Shaped by a thousand years of history, following a series of wars in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the countries reached a peace agreement in July 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne. But while this laid the foundations for a good relationship over the next twenty years, tensions emerged in 1955 when an anti-colonial movement erupted in Cyprus, where Cypriots wanted to unite with Greece. Tensions emerged in the Aegean after the discovery of oil in the early 1970s. This led to several major crises. However, in 1999, the countries started a new process of rapprochement. But in recent years, tensions have been increasing again. And it’s against this backdrop that Erdogan’s visit has been hailed as a fresh start. But can this new spirit of cooperation last?

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VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and Titles
00:46 Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations
01:38 Greeks and Turks in History
03:05 The Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece
04:58 Greek-Turkish Relations, 1923-1955
05:59 Greek-Turkish Relations and Cyprus
08:14 Greek-Turkish Disputes in the Aegean
10:13 The 1999 Greek-Turkish Rapprochement
11:54 Greek-Turkish Tensions Return
13:42 A New Start in Greek-Turkish Relations?

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President of Turkey
https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/
Prime Minister of Greece
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Treaty of Lausanne | 24 July 1923
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Aegean Continental Shelf Greece vs Turkey | ICJ
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/62
Davos Declaration | 1988
https://widgets.weforum.org/history/1...
Athens Declaration | 7 December 2023
https://www.primeminister.gr/en/2023/...

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