HARLEY ⚽

Work in European football and living the dream. 🇦🇺🇬🇷 Currently: Luzern, Switzerland Personal views only, Follow/RT≠endorsement

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@dylancastle_15 @NatCy891 This I genuinely empathise with you and hope we make it easier for Turks to visit, it's much better for our economy to let our neighbours visit. It's EU influence on us and probably part of the larger threat we see to our Aegean islands.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@dylancastle_15 @NatCy891 Konstantinopoli is the Greek name - the same way you call Damascus Şam, you call Greeks Yunan, you call Tripoli Trablus. It's just language. Plus 'Istanbul' is a Turkified Greek phrase 'Eis tan Poli' (In The City) and you called it Konstantiniye until 1927. Not a big deal tbh.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@dylancastle_15 @NatCy891 Anyway, I'm sitting on Kastellorizo right now (a Greek island off the coast of Turkiye) and there are 5 Turkish (out of 250 here) employed happily on the island, interacting with everyone, being included in friendship groups and making money like everyone else. That's reality.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@dylancastle_15 @NatCy891 The truth is my friend, you are online too much. The reality is that most Turks and Greeks rarely think about it everyday. The point about schools is incorrect - we're not taught to be hateful, we're taught a dark history from a Greek perspective, as yours is from a Turkish one.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@oktayarslan Bro I'm Greek and I'm telling you to go support your nation, it's the World Cup FFS

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@Ankaman616 For the plot - Uzbekistan beats Colombia

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@alkanali1907 @KavalaFaik Turkiye has trading routes through the Aegean. Turkish tourism boats make lots of money crossing the Greek-Turkish border. In Kas, boat operators promote Kastellorizo as a popular Greek island experience, which makes Turkish business stronger. This whole argument hurts everyone.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@alkanali1907 @KavalaFaik But you don't need the islands. There's no geopolitical need for you to have them. There are 200,000 Greeks living on these islands who live real, peaceful, normal lives. Why do you need to interfere?

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@alkanali1907 @KavalaFaik But that's like me saying "You confined us from our villages in Anatolia, a friendly environment is not possible until you give me our parts of Anatolia."

Your border was cemented by Ataturk & Inonu. Turkish people are land-based; Greece's were sea, it's clear in history.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@cinarozcan19 You give me hope Çinar. We need more voices like you out there.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@alkanali1907 @KavalaFaik Why react to one person? I’m in Istanbul right now and had people look at my passport and mutter “Yunan” to each other and make a face.

The other 99% treated me with respect and trademark Turkish hospitality. I like to believe in those people instead

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@alkanali1907 @KavalaFaik What a shame, because you would be welcomed in Athens, feel the similarity and get a totally different feeling about Greeks if you met us face-to-face.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@LazTurk121556 @ZulfiKarSinemin Differently styled in Turkiye. Christians were coerced to convert to Islam to avoid jizya tax and military conscription. That's why there's 85m Turks and 11m Greeks today, and why so many Turkish DNA tests return Greek & Armenian results. Turkish-styled colonisation.

[Central Coast Mariners @CCMariners]

An unexpected visitor at our training ground today…

Not a Southampton spy, just this guy 😂🐍

#CCMFC | @aleaguemen

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@SrSittingBull @Lou_Sticca @suitedbootedtv The day Perth Glory sold out 18,000 seats at HBF Park v Melbourne Victory in March 2019, the West Coast Eagles played simultaneously and sold out Optus Stadium less than 1km away.

We honestly need to run our own race and focus on the quality of our product. Nothing else.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@srkninci @clashreport I know you're trying to insult us but I'll take it intellectually. You're not totally wrong.

I truly think there's a hierarchy of 'Western-ness' that is roughly followed like this. Greece will never be as Western as W. Europe but will always be seen as more Western than Turkiye.

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@barlasia As a Greek who cares about Turkiye, my thoughts:
- Priority: defeat inflation
- Integrate Greek island x Turkish Riviera tourism.
- Build healthcare tourism - copy Swiss model, do it cheaper.
- Don't join EU but become it's most important ally and deepen free trade exports deals

[HARLEY ⚽ @harleymita]

@erenthemuhendis @BasedTurkiiye Not true, most of us just want peace. Every nation has a lunatic right wing - Turkiye included. I prefer to focus on the good, educated Turks who believe in a better future.

PS: Hagia Sophia means Saint Sophia in Greek. The least we can ask for is some respect for our religion.