Greece and Turkey, a pair of famous enemies, have a history of thousands of years.

Needless to say, the Byzantine Empire is the successor of the Roman Empire, and it has always been Greek except Latin. Today, Greece and Turkey were once the land of the Byzantine Empire.

107 1 year, the seljuk empire in the east defeated the Byzantine empire in Manchikot, and seljuk immigrants poured into the Anatolian plateau and once ran to the Aegean coast. It was under this pressure that the then Emperor Alexei I asked the Pope to call the Crusaders. Under the attack of Crusaders and Byzantine troops, these Seljuks finally occupied the Anatolian Plateau, except the coastal areas. Since then, the two sides have been in conflict for hundreds of years, but neither side can destroy the other.

However, the Sultanate of Rome did not defeat Byzantium, but split first. On the body of the Roman Sultan, there are many small Turkish tribes, such as Karaman Candal, and the protagonist Osman. The Ottoman tribe experienced the merger with other Turkish tribes and successfully crossed the Aegean Sea. Finally, in 1453, the Ottoman Sultan attacked Constantinople, the last fortress of the Byzantine Empire. After the siege, the Byzantine Empire disappeared from history, and the Greeks became vassals of the Ottoman Empire. To this day, Constantinople is still called Istanbul, and Sophia Cathedral is still a mosque.

Greeks lived under the rule of Turks for nearly 400 years. Due to religious differences, fewer and fewer Greeks believe in the Orthodox Church. However, in the19th century, when nationalism was at its peak, the Greeks still roared. The Ottoman Empire brutally slaughtered these people.

Since most of the core areas of Turkey were once the core areas of the Byzantine Empire, many Greeks in these areas still maintained their Orthodox beliefs even after hundreds of years. 1822 after Greece finally gained independence, these Greeks began to stir. In March of that year, a group of heavily armed Greek soldiers landed on the island of Shios, winning the support of many local islanders. However, Osman suddenly attacked the island, and the rebellion on the island of Shios was quickly suppressed. However, these Turks did not stop. They raised their butcher knives. About 45,000 Greeks were killed, 50,000 were treated as slaves, and 23,000 were expelled, leaving only nearly 2,000 people on the island. Shios Island is just a microcosm of Turkey's massacre of Greece. In places where many Greeks gathered, there were more or less massacres.

However, the independence of Greece inspired other peoples ruled by Turks, such as Serbia and Bulgaria. With the support of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire, these countries formed the Balkan Union, and then the Balkan Union declared war on Osman. After the war, Osman lost almost all Asian territories, only the East Thrace region was kept. Since then, due to the uneven distribution of spoils, the Second Balkan War broke out, and Greece obtained Western Thrace from Bulgaria. The Greeks seem to be only one step away from the great rejuvenation, and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I shortened this step again. However, contrary to expectations, Turkey under Kemal defeated the Greek soldiers, Greece had to recognize Turkey's sovereignty, and the Greeks failed to recover Constantinople. After that, the population exchange between Greece and Turkey completely lost the ideal of great rejuvenation. Even so, the hatred between Greece and Turkey is unforgettable.