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Greece's prime minister on Monday pledged to make "Every force available" to aid historical rival Turkey after the neighboring country was hit by a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
The powerful earthquake, felt in Turkey and in Syria, has killed nearly 1,800 people, leveled buildings and caused tremors felt as far away as Greenland.
Despite decades of animosity and recent tension over migration and hydrocarbon exploration, Greece and Turkey have a long history of helping each other in earthquakes.


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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 >

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. >

please stop plotting the reform of the roman empire >

Vatican: am I a joke to you? >

The hats are kinda huge and hilarious… >

Where EVERYday is silly hat day! >

And the pedos come out to play >

Oof, that is a deal breaker for me. No thanks. >

It's cute how Greece and Turkey are always fighting and bickering, but always come to each other's aid when they really need it. >

We have more in common than not. I love Greek people, history, culture and cuisine and I have yet to meet one who hates all Turks. I know they all exist, but their numbers are small. The dumb nationalists, and they’re wrong about everything anyways. >

as a Greek, i have never understood the current ill-will towards our Turkish relatives. Yes, there is a nasty history - but it's history. you don't have to carry it forward.
i've always wanted to visit Istanbul, Cappadoccia and Ankara >

The people of Cyprus might not accept the whole "it's all in the past" free pass. Turkey still owns half their capitol, and still has the Turkish flag burned into the mountainside facing the Cypriot half of the city. >

The way Turkey has handled Cyprus is ridiculous and stupid but Greeks aren’t entirely blameless in it. The initial reason for the Turkish military to get involved was a coup sponsored by Greece in Cyprus with the aim to get it annexed by Greece. Turkey had a legitimate reason to get involved though staying and dividing the country was obviously the wrong choice. And there hasn’t been any intention of Cyprus being absorbed into Greece for some time so Turkey should fuck off and let the island belong to the Cypriots, both Greek and Turkish ones.
With these sort of ongoing conflicts between neighbors there’s usually not one entirely right side and one entirely wrong one. Greece and Turkey have been at it for ages and in individual situations you can say this side was the right one and that was the wrong one but you can’t distill a millennium of conflict into good and bad. >

Thank you for summarizing the Cyprus situation truthfully. 
At the time Turkey interfered well within our rights, but stayed far longer than necessary becoming another party to blame, no side is faultless.