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.
Dimitrios Trijantafilu, direktor Centra za međunarodne i evropske studije na univerzitetu Kadir Has kaže, međutim, da sport nikada nije postao „deo diplomatije približavanja“ Grčke i Turske, iako je bilo više popularnih igrača koji su imali na hiljade navijača u obe zemlje.