08.02.2023
Editorial: Solidarity
The reminder of the common fate of the two neighbouring peoples has a greater impact in a time of heightened tensions in bilateral relations, when extreme rhetoric makes them forget.
Greek-Turkish Relations
14.11.2022
Editorial: Friends and enemies
It is no small thing, for example, that US Senator Bob Menendez, who has steadfastly backed Greece’s positions, remains Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
22.10.2022
Op-ed: For the West, Erdogan is one thing, Turkey is another
If a minister of a foreign country visits Turkey or meets with a Turkish official, that is automatically and wrongly interpreted through the prism of Greek-Turkish relations.
24.08.2022
Editorial: Realism needed in dealing with Turkey
Turkish analysts are noting that Erdogan is lagging in the polls on next June’s general elections, and everyone is wondering what means he might employ in order to remain in power.
15.06.2022
Head of Greek Pomaks’ Association rips into Erdogan’s revisionist expansionism
'In response to the “Blue Homeland”, Greece could lay claim to all of Asia Minor and Constantinople. Is it possible in our day and age for leaders and peoples to think in this manner?'
23.04.2022
Akar slams Greece on Orthodox Good Friday, demands demilitarisation of 16 Aegean islands
Ankara maintains an enormous landing force, with a strong amphibian component, the Aegean Army, on the entire coast of Anatolia, extremely close to Greek Aegean islands.
18.01.2022
Editorial: Vigilance
The new tension concern how Turkey is banking on the new, fluid geopolitical terrain in the Southeastern Mediterranean and more broadly.
05.01.2022
Editorial: Pragmatism in Greek-Turkish relations
Greek-Turkish exploratory talks must not cease, because they are the only means to resolve the impasse. The alternative to diplomacy spells disaster.
30.11.2021
Editorial: Sobriety in foreign relations
We are a country at the core of the European construct and a NATO member-state and therefore a force of stability in the Southeastern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans.
24.11.2021
Editorial: Turkey’s domestic, foreign crises
Greece has a duty to staunchly declare that it is a member of the EU and of NATO, and a constant, stabilising factor in the Southeastern Mediterranean, in contrast with Turkey.
10.11.2021
Editorial: The predictably unpredictable Mr. Erdogan
Erdogan has often demonstrated that the only way he knows to address domestic problems is through aggressiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere.
29.10.2021
Mitsotakis tells Merkel that ‘West’s calm often encourages Turkey’s arbitrary action’
The PM declared that the chancellor has been a voice of logic and though sometimes measures imposed on Greece were unjust, in 2015 she rejected Greece’s ostracism from the EU.
29.10.2021
Merkel says she ‘demanded much of the Greeks’ but it was necessary to protect the common currency
'The difficulties were a given when the issue was the stability of the euro, and I personally was absolutely cognisant of the excessive burden and challenge that this entailed for the people of Greece.'
22.10.2021
Editorial: Opportunity
Aside from French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian PM Mario Draghi, Athens also enjoys the support of European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
22.07.2021
Editorial: Erdogan’s provocations
The Turkish president announced the opening of a small portion of the fenced off, ghost city of Varosha, which has been guarded by Turkish occupation forces for the last 47 years.
16.06.2021
Editorial: A calculated diplomacy
Ankara – as was confirmed by the Biden-Erdogan talks with bilateral relations tattered – will always be viewed as a crucial ally for the West, of which Greece is a part.
31.05.2021
Editorial: A coordinated foreign policy
In this new multi-polar and fluid world - with a global public health crisis and a leadership change in the US - we must consider Greek-Turkish relations over the long term.
31.05.2021
Exclusive Interview TO VIMA – Mevlut Cavusoglu: The “keys” for a solution
The Turkish Foreign Minister talks to TO VIMA ahead of his meetings with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Dendias.
