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…
Around the world, millions of deaths are attributed to air, water, soil and workplace pollution. By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director A recent study finds that 8% of deaths in Greece each year may be attributed to pollution, a grim statistic…
A small country with big responsibilities on the world stage By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director, HALC By the numbers, Greece shouldn’t matter so much. Its geographic area is smaller than that of Alabama. More than half of individual American states…
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 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…
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…
By Georgia Logothetis, Managing Director “The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything,” Sophocles once wrote. “There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.” The first wave Greek immigrants settled…
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…