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, Managing Director, HALC About nine months ago, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson sat before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state. He was introduced with lavish praise by former CIA…
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 Over the past 5 years voters have made a habit of rejecting the mainstream center-right and center-left parties that dominated the post-World War II period. Europeans have faced circumstances typically associated with wartime…
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…
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC Nearly six months ago, Andrew Gounardes stood in front of a room full of Brooklyn’s most prominent Greek-Americans and in a passionate speech, called for more action from the Greek-American community on the issue…
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC “If you deconstruct Greece,” the Nobel Prize winning poet Odysseus Elytis wrote, “you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct…
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…
by Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC Another day, another instance of Greece’s right-wing extremists embarrassing themselves on camera. The hate-group turned political party Golden Dawn — which, in a disgrace to democracy, holds 17 seats in Hellenic Parliament — is featured in a new…