{"id":12621,"date":"2020-09-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2020-09-10T23:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T06:59:37","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-greek-turkish-rivalry-again-near-the-boiling-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-greek-turkish-rivalry-again-near-the-boiling-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Greek-Turkish rivalry again near the boiling point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily Chronicle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the loss of much of the Christian Balkans to the Ottomans in the 15th century, Greece and what would later become modern Turkey have been rivals, outright enemies and often at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mutual NATO membership and shared Cold War fears of Soviet Russia did not stop the two from almost going to war after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, the current escalation seems weird. Most territorial claims and disputes over borders were settled almost a century ago, and the two countries have had mass population exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, then, does the divide still run so deep?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/ap_news\/victor-davis-hanson-greek-turkish-rivalry-again-near-the-boiling-point\/article_416e8c66-11d1-5c5b-9b45-51ad88303211.html\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily Chronicle Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Since the loss of much of the Christian Balkans to the Ottomans in the 15th century, Greece and what would later become modern Turkey have been rivals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1591,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-turkish-government-global-arbiter-of-ethnic-violence\/","url_meta":{"origin":12621,"position":0},"title":"The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner The virulent worldwide reaction to Israeli\u2019s handling of the Gaza flotilla has been quite instructive. 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