- The officially announced new foreign policy line of the government for "zero problems" with neighbouring countries is absolutely correct as a policy but, unfortunately, most of the tools that are used are wrong. In general, all Turkish citizens, "pro-" and "anti-" AKP , supported this new course, because peace means calmness, stability, prosperity, free movement of people, goods and capital, development of tourism, trade and mutual awareness, integrity with the people from these countries because of the visa-free regime with more than 60 countries worldwide. This is in line with the requirements of the European Union for Turkey to improve its relations with its neighbours. This positive psychological climate that was established in Turkey, especially in the middle of the first, and during the second, term of office of the Party of Justice and Development, had a positive impact not only on the eastern but also on the western neighbours because it is peaceful and aims at prosperity throughout the region. Greece and Turkey are NATO members, they both supported Bulgaria's membership in NATO and worked together for it. The Turkish parliament had even passed a law on the need for Bulgaria to join NATO. Although slow, the talks with Brussels are still ongoing. The Turkish phobia of Greece is meaningless in my opinion. Let me recall the fact that during the deepening economic crisis in Greece, the Prime Ministers of the two neighbouring countries signed in Athens in May 2010 the establishment of a joint supreme council for strategic cooperation. The second meeting of this intergovernmental mechanism for close cooperation, which involved key ministers from both governments and which is something like a joint council of ministers, was held in Turkey in March 2013. Since 2006, Ankara has signed similar agreements with 16 countries, including Bulgaria and Russia. This format is one of the new foreign policy tools actively used by Ankara and it has contributed towards the development of the economy. At these meetings, the top Turkish diplomat, Davutoglu, has repeatedly stressed that the two countries share a common history and geography. Turkey's desire is to intensify the connection between the two nations and to build a common Balkan vision for the future of the region. A hope for resolving the issues with good will has been also expressed, so that the Aegean Sea becomes a region of friendship, peace and prosperity, which is in the interest of the European Union and NATO. The working formula for achieving this goal, according to the Turkish politicians who are known for their proven pragmatism, is the unification of the two countries in the fields of trade, transport, energy, culture and tourism. Turks like Greeks, Greek music and cuisine, which is Mediterranean; they like to go on holiday to the Greek islands, do business and deal with the Greeks and they want the neighbourly relations to continue to develop. They believe that Greeks are calmer than they are because Turks consider themselves hard-working people. In difficult times, they would always help the neighbours as they did during the earthquake in Athens. Sometimes they laugh at the inveterate fear of the Turks because they find it irrational. An example of good relations between the two countries is the "earthquake diplomacy," which was the success of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the time, the late Ismail Cem of the Democratic Left Party of Bulent Ecevit and George Papandreou. Then they were chosen in the dream team of the world's best politicians in the late twentieth century. Turks definitely get annoyed when Greeks call Istanbul Konstantinoupolis. If the readers of GRReporter are more interested in the Turks’ notion of the Greeks and in the Greeks’ notion of the Turks, I would recommend that they read the books and articles by writer Herkul Millas. He is a Greek born in Turkey, he has lived in Greece since 1971 and taught at the Aegean University in Rhodes. He is also a columnist for Zaman newspaper, in which he sometimes publishes articles about the Turkish-Greek relations. He has won twice the prestigious journalism prize for peace "Abdi Ipekci" and the prize for freedom of speech awarded to him by the Union of Turkish Publishers in 2005.