"Eighty years after the massive population reshuffles on both sides
of the Aegean, the signs of the centuries-old Greek presence throughout
almost the extent of modern Turkey remain as if indelible
stamps of a cultural course violently severed from the historical
circumstances, but also our national self-destructive tendencies. This
monumental setting combined with feelings of nostalgia, which us
bequeathed by the uprooted of the last century, make it tempting
the idea of a peace campaign in Turkey today."