ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how such affective grammars were 'translated' into anti-political grammars that enabled processes of rapprochement and reconciliation between the Greek and Turkish societies. It follows the 'life histories and biographies' of people, associations and initiatives. The idea of 'revela-tory incidents', a term initially coined by James W. Fernandez, resembles what the Wittgensteinian tradition would call aspect dawning and aspect change, terms which provides even richer explanations as they turn our focus from the incidents themselves to the processes of understanding and attributing meaning to such incidents. The amazement of discovering the Greek-Turkish cultural extimacy enabled by face-to-face meetings at the award ceremonies was turned into a repeated modality, as part of a ritual of 'friendship', named as 'friendship', and awarded as such with prizes and honorary mentions. The Abdi Ipekci Peace and Friendship Prize is by far the longest-lived initiative on 'Greek-Turkish friendship'.
