Dr Lisel Hintz joins Thanos Davelis to look at Turkey’s recent foreign policy decisions – from blocking Sweden and Finland’s bids to join NATO, escalating its provocations against Greece, and threatening a new incursion into northern Syria – and break down how they also intersect with domestic politics inside Turkey.
Greece secured reduced interest rates for its 15- and 20-year bonds it reopened on Monday, eventually raising 400 million euros.
Greece has welcomed an agreement between Croatia and Italy on the delimitation of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the Adriatic Sea, emphasizing that the deal earns its legitimacy from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982.
Police are investigating after they say a suspect stole an unoccupied mini bus in Thessaloniki in northern Greece and struck a vehicle before fleeing the scene.
For the first time in almost two years, face masks against Covid-19 are no longer mandatory, barring certain exceptions, in Greece.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be taking one of the last rolls of the dice in what is a high-stakes game of craps. Turkey has already entered what is effectively a pre-election period and the president is looking for a way to blindside the opposition and trigger snap polls.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis showed a map of the “Blue Homeland,” which envisions Turkish influence over large swaths of the Mediterranean, to press home the point to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz regarding Ankara’s expansionist tendencies.
A Turkish court is expected to reach a verdict on Wednesday in a case against Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition figure who opinion polls suggest would be a strong possible challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan in upcoming national elections.
Turkish police clashed with protesters around Istanbul’s main Taksim Square on Tuesday and 170 people were detained as they gathered to mark the anniversary of nationwide anti-government demonstrations that began nine years ago in nearby Gezi Park.
The emergence of Greece from an enhanced surveillance regime is a highly significant outcome from a political point of view, for both Athens and Brussels, European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni said on Monday in a statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.