AHMET Gençtürk
WHILE a systematic delegitimization campaign against Turkey, not only President Erdogan is in full swing at western media and think-thanks, a successful PR campaign evaluating Greece to ‘bastion of Western interest, an island of stability and democracy ‘is simultaneously carried out by primarily same Turcophobic circles.
As such, it is perhaps high time to remember the recent decades of Greece’s presently overlooked history of anti-Americanism and record of undermining the West. The history of modern anti-Americanism in Greece can be traced back to the 1940s. When Greece fell into a bloody civil war in 1946, government forces prevailed after three years against the broadly popular and strong communist Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS), only thanks to the immense military and financial support of Britain and America. While the government’s victory came with the cost of execution, exile, or imprisonment of around 100,000 communists, anti-left policies of the
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