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We don't expect less from our Greek brothers and sisters. Actually Turkey, Greece and Italy should form alliance to fight the impacts of earthquakes. We have to live with this. Need to improve city planning, buildings and planning for the day after.
Humanity comes first. Good job Greece. >

The relationship between those two countries is so odd.
Same alliance, basically constantly sabre-rattling. >

Head over to TIL. 
Greece and Turkey have a no matter what Earthquake assistance alliance. >

Yup. Saw that a couple of hours ago on TIL. Think it’s called their Disaster Diplomacy. Both agreeing to set aside any dispute to render aide if either country suffers a quake. >

I hope in my heart this will become a one-up type thing (though not hoping for more quakes.) 
"Oh, you sent us life saving medicine last time? We will send you twice as much!" >

IIRC there was an episode of MASH where they had Greek and Turkish soldiers in the camp at the same time.  At first they were practically at each other's throats, but when more wounded arrived it became a contest of who could donate the most blood. >

Now that's how you do a measuring contest. >

I’ve never been invited to a measuring contest >

Come meet me in the bathroom stall >

Dry or wet measure? >

We are like old uncles fighting over the inheritance >

And yet when it comes to disasters like this, they stop every rivalry they had for a moment. >

Because fighting wars is done between politically motivated individuals. Disaster relief is a species level imperative. Enemies may still be enemies, but, there's a call for a higher purpose at beck, and failing to meet that call is a failure of humanity in of itself. >

Let me introduce you to a little concept called climate change >

Biggest problem about climate change is the misinformation. >

Nope. The biggest problem is speed. Fires, tornadoes, earthquakes are more or less instant destruction climate change plays out over a decades. >

Climate change causes massive uptake on those lol >

Ya you & I know & accept that, but there’s a lot of people that just say “Well the climate is supposed to change. That’s why it’s called climate change.” >

Only we can bully each other. No other country nor hardships can intervene. >

Brothers >

Isn’t this that old joke if Turkey was attacked from the rear would Greece help???? >

Some say the Greeks invented "attacking from the rear" if you know what I mean >

Greek athletes covered in olive oil engage in traditional wrestling bouts where brawlers gain advantage by putting their hands down rivals' trousers

Oil helps lubricate wrestlers, so they are slippery while competing in annual event in Greek village of Sochos
The best way to beat rival is to avoid their greased-up bare torsos, and aim for fellow competitors’ trousers >

Turks love oil wrestling too >

Yağlı güreş! >

Oil wrestling 

Oil wrestling (Turkish: Yağlı güreş), also called grease wrestling, is a traditional Turkish sport, where participants, called pehlivan (wrestlers) or baspehlivan (master wrestlers), wrestle while covered in oil. Competitions are held in proving grounds. One challenge of oil wrestling is that oiling the wrestlers' bodies makes it harder to grab each other. Oil wrestling was performed by ancient communities 4,500 years ago in Thrace and the Balkans.

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Israel helping Syria. Greece helping Turkey.
These are opportunities for a political time out, a chance to do good. Sometimes it lasts. >

Wish we’d get over some of the little things and just be bbfs. We have so much more uniting us than dividing us. >

It's just politicians and expats. People in Turkey barely have any hatred for Greece. >

People in Turkey have way more beef with each other than with Greece hahah >

"Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and ~~Scots~~Turks! Or Welshmen and ~~Scots~~Turks! Or Japanese and ~~Scots~~Turks! Or ~~Scots~~Turks and other ~~Scots~~Turks! Damn ~~Scots~~Turks! They ruined Turkey!" >

Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy is a beautiful thing.
The governments might squabble, but people will always drop everything to help with other people need it. >

Greek–Turkish earthquake diplomacy 

The Greek–Turkish earthquake diplomacy (Greek: διπλωματία των σεισμών, diplomatia ton seismon; Turkish: deprem diplomasisi) was initiated after successive earthquakes hit both countries in the summer of 1999 and led to an improvement in Greek–Turkish relations. Prior to this, relations between the two countries had been generally volatile ever since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Empire. The so-called earthquake diplomacy generated an outpouring of sympathy and generous assistance provided by ordinary Greeks and Turks in both cases. Such acts were encouraged from the top and took many foreigners by surprise.

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The Greek–Turkish earthquake diplomacy (Greek: διπλωματία των σεισμών, diplomatia ton seismon; Turkish: deprem diplomasisi) was initiated after successive earthquakes hit both countries in the summer of 1999 and led to an improvement in Greek–Turkish relations.

Its funny how uniting an outside destructive force can be. 
It's the plot of a lot of films, and I think it's bang on. An alien invasion would actually be very good for humanity in general (assuming a win), and would likely solve a lot of our bickering. 
Because when there's a bigger fish trying to arse fuck ya, you gotta band together. >

An allen invasion would be extremely bad for us, because there is 0 chance that we could win.
Luckily the chance that one will happen in the foreseeable future is so close to 0 that we don't need to worry about it. >

It's like you've never watched independence day. >

That film actually got some flak for showing Israeli and Arabs fighting together against the aliens