Ragıp Duran's book begins, (through Stelios Kouloglou's introductory text) with the story of a friendship: the friendship of Ragıp and Stelios as young journalism students in Paris in the late 1970s. This story, however, is more than just a private affair. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the history of the broader collective efforts for "Greek-Turkish Friendship from below": The beginning of its thread lies precisely in those small friendly vanguards of Greek and Turkish left intellectuals, students, workers and artists who meet in Europe in the '70s (in England, France, Germany) and react to the intolerance and nationalism that "divided" them. [1] The strengthening of these Greek-Turkish networks based on the different versions of socialism that different groups follow (with distinct networks being those of Maoists, Trotskyists, etc.), intensified after the wave of refugees from Turkey to Greece in the 1980s. Then, in the 1990s, the new meet