Economic recession, distorted decision-making in the palace, rising social discontent, backlash from within the ranks of the military and strained ties with the West are weakening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued hold on power ahead of presidential elections in 2023, Turkish-American political analyst Soner Cagaptay tells Kathimerini.
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The European Union appeared split and weak during the visit of its two presidents to Ankara, according to the chairman of the parliamentary group of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber.
Turkey’s freedom to maneuver in foreign policy is likely to be significantly curtailed under the administration of US President Joe Biden, according to Michael Leigh.
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The decision to suspend Turkey’s participation in the F-35 program in response to its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense system came as no surprise, but the United States and the West must continue trying to resolve political differences through dialogue, James Foggo, a retired United States Navy admiral with 39 years of service, tells Kathimerini.
Customers of American Airlines are saying that they are looking forward to a holiday, as well as a reunion with friends and relatives in Greece and the United States, the American Airlines vice president of sales and distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Tom Lattig, tells Kathimerini in an interview.
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The rift between Joe Biden and Recep Tayyip Erdogan runs deep as the American president – in contrast to his predecessor – attaches a great deal of importance to respect for democratic values and does not see his Turkish counterpart as willing to cooperate in the framework of a world order based on shared principles and rules, Ian Bremmer, the head of Eurasia Group, tells Kathimerini in an interview.
A failure of the informal talks on Cyprus in Geneva would be a negative development for all parties involved in the process, the island’s Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides has told Kathimerini in an interview ahead of the April 27-29 meeting.
Ahead of the five-party informal conference on the Cyprus issue this week in Geneva, Turkish-Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar reiterated his insistence that a solution to the island’s problem must be based on the premise of two sovereign states, and not on the bizonal, bicommunal federation which has been the agreed basis for reunification talks since the 1970s, after Turkey’s invasion and military occupation.
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Banks in the eurozone and in Greece should be ready to face a significant increase in nonperforming loans in view of the pandemic crisis and prepare for active management of those loans.
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Nouriel Roubini, the renowned American economist who predicted the 2008 global financial crisis – and for that reason was nicknamed “Dr Doom” – participated in a webinar-discussion organized by the Harvard Business School Club of Greece in September last year.
Turkey’s economic troubles and the political changeover in Washington have caused a “rebalancing” of the country’s foreign policy away from assertive and combative discourse, Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and chairman of the Istanbul-based Center for Economics and Foreign Policy (EDAM) think tank, tells Kathimerini in an interview.
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There are limits to how tough Washington can get with Ankara, according to author and US foreign policy expert Robert Kagan.
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The gradual improvement of relations with Turkey will not be an easy affair, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told Kathimerini in his first interview following the dramatic press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara last Thursday.
Maria Rita Galli has been at the helm of the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) since February. She has been part of the energy sector since 1997 and until recently had been an executive at Italian company Snam.
The issues affecting US-Turkey relations will take time to be resolved, with setbacks along the way, David H. Petraeus has said in an interview with Kathimerini.
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Greek support measures offsetting the impact of Covid-19 may come to 5.8 percent of gross domestic product, but the country “can regain a strong fiscal position after the pandemic,” Rolf Strauch, chief economist at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), told Kathimerini’s Money Review in an interview published Tuesday.
Covid-19 exposed the fact “that many countries’ long-term care systems around the world are broken,” David Grabowski, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School, tells Kathimerini.
One day, when she was a professor at the Sorbonne, she brought the wrong briefcase and walked into a sophomore class with teaching material for postgraduate students. She had to teach the class without any notes.
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Ankara must fulfill its commitments under the 2016 migration agreement with the European Union, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson stressed in an exclusive interview with Kathimerini on Sunday.
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If there was something like an executive board of the European elite, Mario Monti would surely be a member.
Taking recourse to the International Court of Justice in The Hague may not be the ideal solution for either side, but it may be the only viable way forward to a better future in Greek-Turkish relations, says the director of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) office in Ankara.
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In a brief submitted by the US Department of Justice in ongoing litigation, the Biden administration asserts that the Republic of Turkey is not immune from suit for the attacks perpetrated by Erdogan’s security detail against peaceful protesters in Washington, DC.
