Joanna Lumley Quotes
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.
Lumley, Joanna. Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey. Ebury Press, 2011, p. 12.
This quotation is very important because it is the essence if the seemingly eternal conflict between Greece and Turkey. Constantinople is the old name for Istanbul which the Muslims took from the Christians in the 15th century. Most Greeks are taught to want to get the city back as well as Anatolia and most of what is modern Turkey. Ioannis Kolettis was one of the first Greek leaders who made the quest for retaking Constantinople a national holy mission. Of course, this could not happen without the demise of Turkey as a nation. As a result, the Turks have made sure the Greeks would never get any territory—See {639517}.
Joanna Lamond Lumley OBE FRGS is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist.
