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Mitsotakis meets with Erdogan at the UN
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On Wednesday Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a much anticipated meeting with Turkish President Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.


With friends like these… Erdogan’s PBS interview sets the stage at the UN
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Endy Zemenides, the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, joins Thanos Davelis from the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss President Erdogan’s recent eyebrow raising PBS interview, and break down at what else we need to look out for when it comes to Hellenic issues at the UNGA this week.

The battle over SYRIZA and Mitsotakis’ effort to set a new agenda
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Yannis Palaiologos, a journalist at-large with Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the new political season unfolding in Greece, from the battle over the future leadership of SYRIZA to the Mitsotakis government’s efforts to set a new agenda in the wake of wildfires and floods.


Why Washington needs a new approach to Turkey’s Erdogan
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Henri Barkey, the Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Thanos Davelis to explain why Washington needs a new approach to dealing with Turkey and President Erdogan.


Advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in Greece and the US
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Sara Minkara, the US Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, and Chrysella Lagaria, the co-founder and CEO of Black Light, a Social Cooperative Enterprise with a mission to improve the daily lives of people with visual impairments and act as a major stakeholder for their work integration, join Thanos Davelis to discuss the importance of advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities, look at the the key challenges Greece still faces, and explore where Greece and the US can work together to achieve the goal of full inclusion and empowerment.

The uncertain future of the historic Greek population in Turkey
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Over the past few years it seems that the island of Imvros, a Turkish island in the Aegean Sea with a historic Greek population, is experiencing what’s been described by some as a small Greek renaissance, as some descendants of the Greeks who were largely displaced in the 1960s have begun trickling back.

Storm Daniel leaves a trail of devastation in Greece
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Iliana Magra, a journalist with Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest reporting from Greece on the unprecedented Storm Daniel that has battered the country this week, leading to the death of multiple people, triggering landslides, road and bridge collapses, and is being described as a “biblical catastrophe”.



A window of opportunity for Greek-Turkish relations?
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Greece’s foreign minister held a much anticipated meeting with his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday in which the two sides agreed on a “roadmap” to revive high-level contacts between their countries and seek “new approaches” to problems as part of an effort to improve ties.

Greece, the US, and the work to advance LGBTQI+ rights
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Jessica Stern, the US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, and Nikos Efstathiou, a journalist and author from Athens and the current Managing Editor at the magazine LiFO, join Thanos Davelis to talk about the LGBTQI+ rights in Greece and around the world, and look at what Greece and the US can learn from each other as they work to advance these rights.



A diplomatic restart between Athens and Tripoli?
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After several years of virtually nonexistent relations, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis spoke on the phone Wednesday with Najla Mangoush, the interim foreign minister of the government of national unity in Tripoli.


The Treaty of Lausanne: A story of survival and ambivalence
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This year marks the centenary of the Lausanne Treaty, a treaty that has survived a number of twists and turns in world history. Bruce Clark, a contributor to The Economist and the author of “Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey” and “Athens, City of Wisdom,” joins Thanos Davelis to look at what the Treaty of Lausanne has meant on either side of the Aegean.

Pete Sessions’s junket to occupied Cyprus bolsters expansionist dictators
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Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon official, joins Thanos Davelis to explain how Congressman Pete Sessions’ junket to the occupied part of Cyprus was not only deeply irresponsible, but does nothing to advance diplomacy and is manna for expansionist dictators everywhere.