Les relations gréco-turques au tournant du siècle : ruptures, évolutions et permanences

Abstract

The end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21th century brought changes in the Greek Turkish relations for global and local reasons. The end of the bipolar world, the increasingly important weight of the European Union in European South-East, but also a change of vision in the bilateral relations improved these relations. These improvements took forms sometimes brutal as on the following day of the earthquake in Turkey in 1999. However, even if these ruptures are as sudden as rare, there were too, as in the whole of the history of bilateral relations, significant slow evolutions, especially with regard to the situation of the reciprocal minorities had been observed. And finally, in spite of this improvement, there are always certain fields of the Greek-Turkish conflict that show a stagnation as the disagreements relative to the Aegean Sea.

Keywords

• Greek-Turkish relations
• Patriarchate
• Phener
• Cyprus question
• Minorities
• Greece