Across the Water: The Islands That Divide and Connect Greece and Turkey
TRAVELOGUE: Beneath the island calm of Kos lies a tempestuous past of massacres, forced migrations, and tales of empires lost
I sat on a beach in the Greek island of Kos, looking across the water at the hills of Turkey. It is always strange when two very different countries meet within sight of each other. But here the oddity is sharpened: these islands, the Dodecanese, lie far closer to Asia Minor (an hour’s swim out) than to the Greek …
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