Unilateral reduction in military spending!
Time and again, successive Turkish and Greek governments have insisted that it’s not their fault, that it is “the others” who are the aggressors, “the others” who undertake an offensive foreign policy. We are, each government says, the good, peaceful guys. In blaming one another both governments are equally right! Because both the Greek and Turkish governments, both the Greek and Turkish bourgeoisies, compete and fight each other. Their rivalry, though, is not about any glorious past and holy ancestors, not about religion or national minority rights, it is not even about “it-has-always-been-ours” soil or sea as ends in themselves. The Turkish and Greek bourgeoisies and their governments are fighting for their economic interests, for who will prevail first and foremost economically in the regional markets.