Lebanon is dangerously close to becoming a failed state. Robert Nicholson and Richard Ghazal, two experts on the region, join The Greek Current to share their expertise on what’s going on in Lebanon, why it matters, what steps the US and the international community should take, and what’s at stake for the country’s and the region’s Christian population.
Merve Tahiroglu, the Turkey program coordinator at the Project on Middle East Democracy, joins us to talk about her latest piece in Brookings’ TechStream blog about the social media app Clubhouse and its impact on Turkey’s political scene.
Tom Ellis, the editor-in-chief of Kathimerini English Edition, joins The Greek Current to analyze Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ visit to Libya on Tuesday and share his take on the future of Greek-Libyan relations.
This week Greece decided to relax some of its lockdown measures, even as it’s seeing a record number of infections that’s straining hospitals to their limits.
Eirini Chrysolora, a journalist at Kathimerini covering economic and financial affairs, joins The Greek Current to talk about the massive economic recovery and resilience plan – Greece 2.0 – that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled this week.
The issue of the Parthenon marbles was back in the headlines earlier in March, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a point-blank rejection of the sculptures being returned to Greece.
Politico journalist Nektaria Stamouli joins The Greek Current to talk about the new migration pact the EU is working on, the kind of solidarity Europe’s frontline states like Greece want to see from their European partners, and the different challenges Greece is currently facing as a result of the migration crisis.
What lessons from the American involvement in the Greek Revolution of 1821 should President Biden take into account when formulating its own foreign policy doctrine?
On Greece’s bicentennial, Professor Alexander Kitroeff joins us to discuss Philhellenism in the US during the Greek War of Independence, and highlights the many Americans from all walks of life who made notable contributions to Greece’s fight for freedom.
This week, Brussels is at the center of a number of important developments. These include the upcoming EU summit where European leaders will examine the bloc’s relationship with Turkey, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with the foreign ministers of NATO in his first official trip outside the US, which took place on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked the country’s central bank governor, and pulled out of the Istanbul Convention, a treaty to protect women.
On Friday, In Defense of Christians hosted an event focusing on the national security concerns and human rights violations in Turkey that need to be addressed by the United States.
This week a federal appeals court reinstated guilty verdicts on Bijan Rafiekian, the business partner of former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, over the pair’s lobbying for Turkish interests in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.
In the latest crackdown on Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party, the HDP, Turkish authorities on Wednesday stripped Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a prominent HDP legislator and human rights advocate, of his parliamentary seat.
Greek and Turkish diplomats met in Athens on Tuesday for the 62nd round of exploratory contacts. John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Greece and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins The Greek Current with the key takeaways from the talks.
Michael Rubin makes the case that it’s time to reconsider the decades-long diplomatic approach to solving the Cyprus problem, especially given Turkey’s recent maximalist calls for a two-state solution on the island.
