Heartfelt needs for India, plain courtesy for Pakistan: How Greece wished on Independence Day

On fifteenth August, India celebrated its 77th Independence Day. Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed a heartfelt message for the folks of India. They wrote, “Our heartfelt congratulations & best wishes to all our Indian friends & the Gov’t of India on the joyful occasion of Indian Independence Day! Looking forward to further expanding our excellent Greece-India relations, on the basis of close people-to-people ties & shared values.”

Our heartfelt congratulations & greatest needs to all our Indian pals & the Gov’t of #India on the joyful event of 🇮🇳#IndependenceDay! Looking ahead to additional increasing our glorious🇬🇷🇮🇳relations, on the premise of shut people-to-people ties & shared values@IndianDiplomacy pic.twitter.com/w8a40Pm14h

— Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών (@GreeceMFA) August 14, 2023

A day earlier than, on 14th August, Pakistan celebrated its Independence Day, and Greece’s MFA’s message to them was curt and perfunctory. They wrote, “Warm congratulations to the people and Government of Pakistan as they celebrate today their Independence Day!”

Warm congratulations to the folks and Government of #Pakistan 🇵🇰 as they have fun as we speak their #IndependenceDay!@ForeignOfficePk pic.twitter.com/cW1ojeQgwr

— Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών (@GreeceMFA) August 14, 2023

The sharp distinction between the language of the posts is no surprise as a result of Pakistanis usually hate Greece as they take into account themselves brothers of Turkey (by the consideration of the Islamic Ummah). For these unaware, Turkey and Greece should not have pleasant relationships and are sometimes thought of “enemies”.

Greece and Turkey have been historic and cultural rivals for fairly a while. Greek lands have been beneath Ottoman rule because the fall of Constantinople. Greece gained its Independence from Ottoman Turks in 1832 after an extended wrestle and finally a inhabitants change was completed. However, the 2 trendy nations nonetheless have conflicting pursuits over marine territories and over the Island of Cyprus. Pakistanis, fascinated and mesmerized by the Ottoman Islamic roots of contemporary Turkey, usually profess themselves as brothers of Turkey and bathe extra negativity on Greece, regardless of arriving within the European NATO nation by the boatloads and dealing in giant numbers in Greece as migrant laborers.

A Pakistani abusing Greek journalist on X Pakistanis have been criticizing Greece

Pakistani migrants in Greece have been within the information not too long ago for holding an anti-India rally in Athens and elevating anti-India slogans. Pakistani staff, usually unlawful immigrants, will not be seen favorably in Greece and lots of blame them for the rise in crime charges. Recently the Pakistani media reported that the Greek embassy in Islamabad had canceled the visas of tons of of Pakistanis.

Greece additionally confronted criticism and flak from Pakistan in latest occasions after over 290 Pakistanis coming to Greece died on a migrant boat. News experiences had claimed that the Pakistanis have been made to remain on the bottom ranges of the ship when it capsized and sunk off the Greek coast. The Greeks responded by telling that Pakistanis ought to create higher circumstances in their very own nation moderately than criticizing a international nation for not taking unlawful immigrants.

They protested Pakistan’s continual corruption, financing of jihadists, & expensive upkeep of nuclear bombs – , all of the necessary stuff (neglect dependable electrical energy provides, clear ingesting water, sanitation and so on)?

No, they blame Greece for his or her dangerous & unlawful migration https://t.co/oPCiPXOm6t

— Paul Antonopoulos 🇬🇷🇨🇾 (@oulosP) August 14, 2023
Pakistan’s love for Turkey

In May 2020, Pakistanis trended Boycott UAE after diplomatic tensions between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Tensions have been raised between Turkey and the UAE over the Libyan disaster as each international locations help the opposing sides in an influence wrestle in Libya.

Pakistan’s Turkey love is so deep that they don’t care about their very own ravenous folks with regards to serving to Turkey. In February 2023, when Turkey suffered a powerful earthquake, reportedly with none formal orders by the Pakistan authorities or the provincial governments, officers of the Balochistan authorities discovered a fifty % minimize of their salaries as a result of they have been required to contribute to Turkey’s reduction help. Not to neglect, Pakistan is affected by a extreme monetary disaster. Instead of making certain meals on the plates of its residents, the federal government determined to donate 50% of the federal government officers’ salaries to Turkey.

Pakistanis go overboard in selling Turkish tv sequence as effectively. In May 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Turkish TV sequence Ertugrul broke all data in Pakistan because the Pakistanis binge-watched it. The Turkey-love was so potent that the then Prime Minister Imran Khan even urged Pakistanis to observe the Ottoman drama Ertugrul.

Prime Minister Imran Khan shares his views over PTV telecast of well-known Turkish drama serial Diriliş: Ertuğrul; it should make our youth find out about Islamic historical past and ethics pic.twitter.com/pymAPbJFLr

— Prime Minister’s Office (@PakPMO) April 24, 2020

It is notable right here that Greece has a large inhabitants of Pakistani migrants. On 14th August, Pakistan’s Independence Day was celebrated by the Pakistani neighborhood in Athens.

On the opposite hand, India and Greece are coming nearer than ever earlier than contemplating their widespread geopolitical pursuits, and want to enhance commerce and protection operations. PM Modi is to go to Greece this month. He would be the first Indian PM after Indira Gandhi to go to Greece.