Seeing Greece through Turkish school textbooks

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak has published an article for Greece's Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS),where he examines the coverage of Turkey's historical rival, Greece, in its school curriculum. In English.
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"Despite the shadow of historical rivalry and significant political disagreements, Greece and Turkey enjoy a relatively neighborly relationship. The personal relations linked to tourism, culture, music and food constitute the backbone of this fragile stability. However, these alone are insufficient to form a complete picture of one state and its citizens in the eyes of another. Thus, alongside the platform of civic dialogue, states' education systems and their auto-biographies - i.e the school textbooks – act as complimentary toolsl in shaping a country's reputation."