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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

What's in a name? Everything is Greek to us anyway.


From this and other stuff happening in Turkey and Greece,  I get  a feeling something's not all huggy-kissy with these two.

Two Turkish dignitaries were refused entry     into Greece because their places of birth were listed as Komotini's Turkish name of "Gümülcine" in their passports.....
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..Eren, Müezzinoğlu and his wife had to break from the group and return to Turkey to have their passports renewed to display their place of birth as Komotini. The trio was granted entry the next day after the city name on their passports was changed.

He said the Greeks were enforcing a recently enacted agreement between Greece and Turkey that requires Turks born in Greece to use the Greek name of their place of birth and Greeks born in Turkey to use the Turkish name of their place of birth....

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