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There was a substantial Greek population on the coast until modern times. At the end of WWI Greece was awarded a piece of the Aegean and Black Sea coasts. It wasn't enough for the Greeks, who invaded to grab more. Ataturk rallied the Turks and threw the Greeks off the Anatolian mainland altogether. There was an exchange of populations after that nasty little war.

Kinda set the tone for Greek-Turkish relations the next century.

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They’re still unsettled about Cyprus ... two more countries in the M.E. who have hated each other for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

We were living there during the Papandreou coup in ‘67 and black-outs that followed b/c each thought the other was going to invade.