Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, director of the Center for International and European Studies at Kadir Has University, says, however, that sports never became "a part of rapprochement diplomacy" between Greece and Turkey, although there have been a number of popular players who had thousands of followers in both countries.
Međutim, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, ravnatelj Centra za međunarodne i europske studije na sveučilištu Kadir Has, kaže kako sport nikad nije postao "dijelom diplomacije usmjerene na zbližavanje" Grčke i Turske, premda je niz popularnih igrača imalo tisuće poklonika u obje zemlje.