Greece

Why Turkey-Greece islands confrontation is more than it seems

Fri, 03/02/2017 - 09:36
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Fri, 03/02/2017
Turkey-Greece confrontation


AUTHOR, Cengiz Çandar

This week's revival, after two decades, of the Kardak rivalry between Turkey and Greece is less about those countries' relationship and more about Turkey thumbing its nose at the European Union.

Back to a crisis with Greece?

Wed, 01/02/2017 - 09:26
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Wed, 01/02/2017
Hulusi Akar

Yusuf Kanlı
It appears that there are efforts to reactivate the Kardak (Imia) issue between Turkey and Greece… Will, like the 1996 case, the islets bring the two countries to the verge of war in 2017, 21 years later?

Greece’s Debt Problem Lingers On

Sat, 10/12/2016 - 10:38
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Sat, 10/12/2016
Greece’s Debt Problem

 By Allison Fedirka
Athens and Brussels once again find themselves at an impasse.
Before the Italian banking crisis and referendum, before Brexit, there was Greece. Greece’s debt crisis was really the first public crack in the European Union's armor and one that has yet to be repaired. Readers who want to understand why anti-EU sentiment and nationalism have developed in many of these countries don't have to go to migration or other controversial topics.

So, Istanbul is a Greek city?

Fri, 04/11/2016 - 09:19
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Fri, 04/11/2016
Erdogan laicist


Burak Bekdil
Some observers have lately been advising foreign governments not to worry too much about Turkey’s (President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s) increasingly aggressive irredentist rhetoric because it is largely targeted at domestic consumption rather than addressing the relevant foreign audience. Well, yes and no.

Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire

Tue, 25/10/2016 - 09:58
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Tue, 25/10/2016
National Pact map


Erdogan’s aggressive nationalism is now spilling over Turkey’s borders, grabbing land in Greece and Iraq.
BY NICK DANFORTH
In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. 

Russia revisits oil pipeline to avoid Black Sea

Fri, 22/07/2016 - 09:39
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Fri, 22/07/2016


by Daniel J. Graeber
Russia could revisit a land-based oil pipeline meant to get around Turkish waterways if the political situation worsens, a Russian executive said. Nikolai Tokarev, the head of Russian pipeline company Transneft, said there was renewed interest in building the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline.

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