Our strength can only come from within

In comments shortly before the end of his term as the American ambassador to Turkey, Jeff Flake confirmed the United States' desire for a solid relationship between the two countries that serves their common interests. Despite friction over Israel, the recent joint US-Turkish exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean demonstrated this intention. 

Brussels views Ankara through the same prism of serving common interests.

Beyond the numerous differences separating the US and other Western countries from Turkey, there are significant economic and commercial interests uniting them and, more importantly, geopolitical realities. And Greece needs to approach the conundrum of Greek-Turkish relations bearing these facts in mind, without illusions.

What's more, we cannot analyze our relations with the US, Europe and the rest of the world through the strictly limited and...