As for Greece and Turkey specifically, Greece is part of the EU and Schengen and a lot of things would go wrong messing with these treatises but could potentially end up helping Turkey, and Greece has an enormous debt that could be transferred to the new "republic" making it a less than ideal for our neighbors. read more
Greece and Turkey can not unify under one republic. They can only be unified under a confederate government structure which was an idea of Atatürk and Venizelos. Alas this has never happened. In my opinion, if this ever happens one day Greece would benefit much more than Turkey. read more
Turkey is a secular country. Greece is not a secular country. Turkey has a non-secular goverment, but I think Greece has secular one. Some regions in Turkey couldn’t be describe as secular. On the other hand, there is woman-banned area in Greece -Mounth Athos- because of Orthodox believes. read more