The fact that Turkey and Greece have assumed their nation-state identities as a result of a war in which they have confronted has had a substantial impact on the shaping up of relations between thetwo states.The relations between Turkey and Greece, which stepped in Anatolia in 1919 as an occupying force, continued quite problematically until 1930s when the possibility of a war to break out in the world was prevalent.The relations between Greece and Turkey, which were quite favorable particularly during the period of Atatürk and Venizelos, were spoilt following the emergence of the Cyprus question in 1955.