Internal borders

Greece is winning the unorthodox war that has been declared on it by Turkey. The borders are holding; European institutions and EU member-states are standing by the Greeks, confirming that these are Europe's borders; the domestic front is united; even refugees and migrants are coming to realize that they have been had by the cynical Turkish president. In success, however, danger lurks. Having failed to blackmail the EU, Turkey is now throwing its weight into the effort to undermine Greece's image, to isolate it from its partners, to create problems on the domestic front.

Turkey's policy depends on whether we Greeks will meet the challenge at our border without losing the values that make our society so different from the one taking shape under Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mass migration causes tension in any society. The Turks know this well: for some time now, Syrian refugees, who...