Mayor's Invitation to Turks Hurts Greek Pride

Mayor's Invitation to Turks Hurts Greek Pride

James Angelos The Wall Street Journal

James Angelos/The Wall Street Journal
Mayor Yiannis Boutaris says the city should celebrate its diverse past.

THESSALONIKI. (Wall Street Journal). Greece?The mayor of this northern Greek city wants to capitalize on the more than four centuries that Thessaloniki was under Ottoman rule by inviting Turkish tourists to visit landmarks of that history. His message strikes some Greeks as heresy. Although Greeks have long celebrated their Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine heritage, many see the Turkish-Ottoman occupation as a period of oppression. Relations between Greece and Turkey remain tense to this day, and many Greeks still view their neighbor as a threat. Mayor Yiannis Boutaris argues that luring more tourists of any

November 04, 2012

Source: http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/57367

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