We have to live together and make the best of it. They should eventually be permitted to join the European Union. A Europeanized Turkey is in everybody's interest.

One year after the Athens Olympic Games and the European football championship, the Greek basketball team has climbed to the highest peak of Europe once again,

I want to stress that Greece, since last night, is on the lips of everyone in the world who follows this mass and magical sport called football,

will constitute an energy hub of the broader southeastern Europe.

These boys taught us a lesson as to what Greeks can do when we really believe in something, when we are united and have self-confidence, dynamism and method in achieving it,

The EU recognized Turkey as a candidate country in 1999 without expressing any such reservation. The debate is legitimate but you cannot ignore the past,