On Wednesday Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a much anticipated meeting with Turkish President Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
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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.
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.
This week Washington DC turned its attention to Nagorno Karabakh – or Artsakh – once again, with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holding a hearing on the failure to break Azerbaijan’s genocidal blockade of Artsakh that has left some 120,000 Armenians on the brink of starvation.
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.
Days after Storm Daniel passed through Greece, Thessaly – Greece’s agricultural heartland – is still under water, with locals describing apocalyptic scenes.
Mastic, a unique product from the Greek island of Chios, has been at the heart of the island’s economy for centuries, linking it and Greece to the rest of the world, particularly the Middle East.
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.
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.
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”.
Greece, Cyprus, and Israel envisage energy connection linking Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and Europe
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the latest trilateral summit between Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, where energy cooperation was at the heart of discussions.
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.
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.
As heatwaves – like the ones Greece has experienced this summer – become longer and more intense, modern cities like Athens need to develop new strategies in order to shield the city and its inhabitants from rising temperatures.
In the months since Turkish President Erdogan’s reelection, we’ve heard a lot about the potential for a new page in EU-Turkey relations, and Erdogan even raised the issue of Turkey’s membership in the EU at the July NATO summit.
While Greek football – or soccer – teams have delivered some important performances on the European stage these past weeks, a cloud hangs over the sport as fan violence is back in the spotlight after a Greek fan was killed recently in an altercation with Croatian hooligans.
The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, as a result of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Every year on July 20th we remember the beginning of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus. July 20th, however, only marks phase one of the Turkish invasion.
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.
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.
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.
Georgia Nakou, a features editor at MacroPolis, a specialist website focused on political and economic analysis of Greek affairs, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how Greece’s energy policy has been affected by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent EU sanctions on Russia.
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