Well put kasimoto.
I feel honor-bound to post here, although it's probably a bad idea.
My mother is Greek, and I can trace my ancestry in Greece back many hundreds of years. I visit Greece whenever I have the extra money, and I've found both the people and the scenery most admirable.
With that said, why don't you shut up, Ephestion?
Here some regular guy comes and posts on a forum, asking a legitimate question. For all we know, he is a Chinese person living in Turkey. This is a global world now; most every country has large groups of immigrants. I think it is stupid to blame a single, regular person on actions they may completely disagree with. It is very similar to people assuming all American's support the war in Iraq, when actually most I know spend hours singing anti-war chants outside Government establishments.
I've never met a Turk who thought that genocide was a good thing.
No on likes to be stereo-typed. I look up to my Greek friends and relatives, knowing the high standards they set themselves to. I've come to expect them to act civilly, and not stereo-type others.
To quote Pericles in his Funerary speech:
"There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private business we are not suspicious of one another, nor angry with our neighbor if he does what he likes; we do not put on sour looks at him which, though harmless, are not pleasant... We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands..."
What am I trying to say?
What I'm trying to say, is the Greek people don't need petty arguments, saying that we are better than the Turks. We don't need to resort to ridiculous racist disputes. What we've had in the past and what we enjoy now does not need to be described in words. The same goes for the Turkish people.
I feel that most who posted here don't feel the need to resort to that kind of thing. This is the 21st Century.
Much like the Polish and the Germans, or the Chinese and the Japanese, I believe that most Greeks can get over the past atrocities of war. If the last Olympics are any suggestion, where the native Greeks cheered louder for the Turks than any other Olympic team representing there, then I think my high standards for the Greek and Turkish peoples is already being met.
It sucked, it was horrible, but prove you follow the progressive, forward-thinking ideas you claim to, and let it go. Turkey is making great strides to become a modernized, European country, and in my humble opinion is now one of the most forward thinking Middle Eastern nations out there.Just let it go.