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“Your efforts of enhancing friendship and fellowship between the neighboring communities will overcome these bigoted acts driven with historical grudge and hostility” said the Mayor Kocaoğlu.
The Mayor Kocaoğlu explained that he was horrified and worried to see the videos featured on the television channels and wrote the following message to Mr. Butaris, a defender of Turkish-Greek fellowship:
As your brother on the opposite shore:
“I absolutely believe that your efforts of enhancing friendship and fellowship between the neighboring communities will overcome these bigoted acts driven with historical grudge and hostility. Defending peace is not a job for cowards but for brave people. Just like you…
Despite all threats, we will continue to explain that shared culture and knowledge, which is created by our history and union on the same geography, are very valuable syntheses’.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you will recover soon and to send love and supporting messages of Izmir people and I want you to know that I, as your brother on the opposite shore, will always stand by your side.”