Staying with old enemies: The Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Droutsas his Turkish counterpart and his wife welcomed on holiday in Rhodes. Photo: dpa
From the Turkish Aegean coast, it is only a stone's throw across the Greek island of Rhodes.There, Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas was now in transit. This became his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu who just made holiday in Bodrum, reached the cell phone and asked his Greek colleague: "Should I not even just come over for lunch?"
No sooner said than done: On board the yacht "Sea Wind" Davutoglu met last Friday with wife, daughter and son-in Rhodes. Together with the Turkish foreign policy chief Droutsas admired the picturesque old town of Rhodes and shook many hands. "Greeks and Turks are a family," stated Davutoglu satisfaction.
He is expected to tour some of his countrymen have taken. After visiting more and more Turks in the Greek islands this summer - and spring to the fall, which suffers from the Greek tourism industry, a little off. Because Greece is making to speak for months with television images of militant strikes and violent protests by themselves, many hotel beds remain empty.
Tourism Minister Giorgos Nikitiadis expected to fall in tourism revenues this year to the level of 2003. In particular, the German guests from the stay.They prefer to drive in Turkey, which recorded double-digit growth this summer. As it pleased the Greek hoteliers and tavern hosts that are at least more Turks to Greece.
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