Leonidas Karakatsanis is assistant director at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). He holds a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex. He has researched and published on issues related to the politics of identity and reconciliation, civil society, minority rights, immigration and theories of qualitative methods in social and political sciences.

• Preface Introduction Part I: Spectres of the Left 1 Comrades, Democrats, Friends…Shared Spectres 2 Radicalising Rapprochement: Friendship Through Struggles 3 Frontiers in Différance: Political and Spatial Proximities at the Aegean Coasts 4 An Uncanny Spectre? Haunting Friendship(s), Haunting Responsibilities Part II: Towards A 'Civil Society' of Friendship 5 Aspect Dawning, Cultural Extimacy and the (Anti) Politics of Friendship 6 'Friendship' as an Empty Signifier: (E)merging Political Grammars 7 A 'Civil Society' of Friendship: Between Excitement and Boredom

'Using a discourse analysis framework, Karakatsanis makes an original contribution to the literature, which enhances our analytical leverage to understand politics and society in Turkey and Greece. It also draws potential challenges for future efforts to promote Turkish-Greek friendship that should go beyond existing discourses to make it a reality.'- Orcun Selcuk, Insight Turkey

Leonidas Karakatsanis is assistant director at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). He holds a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex. He has researched and published on issues related to the politics of identity and reconciliation, civil society, minority rights, immigration and theories of qualitative methods in social and political sciences.

• Preface Introduction Part I: Spectres of the Left 1 Comrades, Democrats, Friends…Shared Spectres 2 Radicalising Rapprochement: Friendship Through Struggles 3 Frontiers in Différance: Political and Spatial Proximities at the Aegean Coasts 4 An Uncanny Spectre? Haunting Friendship(s), Haunting Responsibilities Part II: Towards A 'Civil Society' of Friendship 5 Aspect Dawning, Cultural Extimacy and the (Anti) Politics of Friendship 6 'Friendship' as an Empty Signifier: (E)merging Political Grammars 7 A 'Civil Society' of Friendship: Between Excitement and Boredom

'Using a discourse analysis framework, Karakatsanis makes an original contribution to the literature, which enhances our analytical leverage to understand politics and society in Turkey and Greece. It also draws potential challenges for future efforts to promote Turkish-Greek friendship that should go beyond existing discourses to make it a reality.'- Orcun Selcuk, Insight Turkey

Leonidas Karakatsanis is assistant director at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). He holds a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex. He has researched and published on issues related to the politics of identity and reconciliation, civil society, minority rights, immigration and theories of qualitative methods in social and political sciences.

• Preface Introduction Part I: Spectres of the Left 1 Comrades, Democrats, Friends…Shared Spectres 2 Radicalising Rapprochement: Friendship Through Struggles 3 Frontiers in Différance: Political and Spatial Proximities at the Aegean Coasts 4 An Uncanny Spectre? Haunting Friendship(s), Haunting Responsibilities Part II: Towards A 'Civil Society' of Friendship 5 Aspect Dawning, Cultural Extimacy and the (Anti) Politics of Friendship 6 'Friendship' as an Empty Signifier: (E)merging Political Grammars 7 A 'Civil Society' of Friendship: Between Excitement and Boredom

'Using a discourse analysis framework, Karakatsanis makes an original contribution to the literature, which enhances our analytical leverage to understand politics and society in Turkey and Greece. It also draws potential challenges for future efforts to promote Turkish-Greek friendship that should go beyond existing discourses to make it a reality.'- Orcun Selcuk, Insight Turkey