Kai Strittmatter
Kai Strittmatter (b. 1965) is the Istanbul correspondent for the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, where he has been a staffer since 1994. He has published several books, including Gebrauchsanweisung für China (China A to Z: A User's Guide to the Next Global Superpower).
Many Greeks feel their future has been stolen from them. But who is to blame? One writes a letter to Angela Merkel, another wants his people to embrace virtue. A report from Athens, where the laughter comes from desperation. 
For years the Turkish government has been deliberately gutting Istanbul’s old town rather than restoring it, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung. UNESCO now intends to strike Istanbul off the World Cultural Heritage list, seeing as politicians have done nothing but stymie efforts to preserve its historic monuments. 
Greeks are cheats who aren’t worth bailing out. Germans should pay Greece’s way out of the morass because the Nazis plundered the country. A war of words is raging between two countries that had hitherto succeeded in surmounting the hurdles of history, complains Süddeutsche Zeitung.