The Turkish president’s visit to Greece is predictably controversial By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Greece this week — the first Turkish president to do so in 65 years — and brought with him the baggage of a politician whose…
Dr. Theodore C. Kariotis, Member of the Delegation of Greece to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea In 1967, Malta’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called for an international conference to devise a new…
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC It’s usually not a good indicator of health for a democracy when allies are treated like enemies, but that’s exactly what’s happening in Turkey. Adam Taylor at The Washington Post explains: [T]he latest development…
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Dirctor, HALC “We don’t need EU membership any more,” proclaimed Turkey’s president this week. That the Turkey-EU relationship has been strained for a while would be an understatement. The accession process began way back in 1987.…
by Georgia Logothetis, HALC Managing Director In A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote that there is no “good influence” because one who is influenced “does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC You would think that after not one, not two, but three times, Erdogan and his thugs would stop confusing US cities for Ankara. Today, however, we were yet again “honored” with another taste…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC Earlier this year, the White House notified Congress of its intent to sell $1.2 million in semiautomatic handguns to the Turkish President Erdogan’s security forces in May. Then, Erdogan unleashed those same thugs…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC 95 years ago, Hellenism was erased from Asia Minor in the final act in Turkey’s genocide of its Christian minorities. Having survived — and thrived — for 3,000 years, the Greek presence in Asia Minor was wiped…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC Today the Greek coast guard fired warning shots at a Turkish cargo ship in the Aegean Sea near the island of Rhodes. The Turkish ship was sailing in Greek waters — three nautical miles off…
Thanos Davelis, Director of Public Affairs, HALC With Turkey threatening a crisis over upcoming energy exploration in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the partnership of HALC and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) sprung into action. Working with the co-chairs of…