Turkey Rolls Out the Blue Carpet for Greece
Bilateral issues, energy, yadda yadda...it's all about that carpet
On Wednesday the Greek Prime Minister was in the Turkish capital, Ankara, for something called the 6th High-Level Cooperation Council meeting, with the Turkish president.
Greece and Turkey are neighbors and have lots of combined interests as well as longstanding friction over things like the Cyprus problem. Greece’s approach to the Russia-Ukraine war is also a little different than Turkey’s.
Lots of big issues, in other words.
But hey — that carpet!
Typically countries will literally roll out the red carpet for visiting leaders and presidents. In this case, however, it seems the Turks switched out traditional red for a sumptuous aquamarine-blue, perhaps in a nod to the Aegean Sea whose shores are, after all, shared by Greece and Turkey. Geographic commonalities etc. Aquamarine blue velvet rope, too, and from photos it looks like at least one member of the Turkish honor guard present was sporting matching blue tones. Elegant!
We don’t cover Turkey much here, but kudos to Ankara for this refreshing contemporary twist on dignitary decor.
Much cooler, we add, than the boring red carpets of awards shows, as well as cooler than some of those “black carpets” rolled out in Washington D.C. lately.
