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the Peace Treaty at Lausane, as well as by the Treaty of Friendship, Neutrality,Coneiliaion and Arbitration and other acts signed in 1930. In theaftermath of these developments there should have been opportunities oefbuilding a new relationship betvveen the two countries.At this juncture one could argue that the magnitude of a conflict betvveenpeeoples which have engaged against each other in war, establishesto each one of them a deep traumatic phsycological experience, which inthe course of time becomes a common feature of their respective consciousness.What each people experienced separately becomes a commonavvareness of the hardships of war and of devastation, while the causesoef conflict beceome irrelevant in the course of time. The example of theEuroepean nations which confronted each other during the 2nd WorldWar -Greece being among them- is propitious to show that the commonsharing of traumatic experiences caused by cruel confrontation overridesthe reasons which led to the conflict. Previous conflictual attitudes weretransformed to a new behaviour of mutual respect, enhanced by the desireof conciliation among peoples, after having committed themselves to thesame values and to a new form of conduct in the servie of peace. Unfortunately,and in spite of many individual examples reflecting a shared convictionfor the need of a common conduct to safeguard peace, Greece andTurkey have not reached that common ground, which at any rate is visiblein the direction of Europe.Stili, some fırst steps to that direction were made, as far Greece andTurkey are concerned, by their respective leaders, after they sealed withthe signing of the treaties mentioned, almost exactly 68 years ago, the beginningof a true peace era 4 . Venizelos and Atatürk can be recognised ashaving performed a twin role. They both excelled as revolutionaries asthey started their respective ways to power. They were the protagonists tothe conflicts as well as to the building of peace betvveen the two nations,while they devoted themselves with passion to modernise their respectivestates. Venizelos, it must be said, usually an uncontested political leader,often faced an acute antagonism within the democratic and parliamentarysystem of which he was a strong proponent. He lost power at the hight ofthe Anatolian campaign, in November 1920, after an electoral defeatwhich was reminiscent more of the ostracism of Aristide the just by theAthenian assembly, than the result of fatigue of an electorate which wasabout to complete a ten years war effort.Ladies and Gentlemen,The political heritage of Kemal Atatürk is as vast as the countrywhich he led to national independence, to which he gave a national iden-4. Among other important sources see: Alexander Alexandris "Historical framework ofGreek-Turkish Relations" Chapt. B "Greekturkish friendship (1930-1938)", Ed (inGreek) Gnosi and ELIAMEP, 1988.562