Turkey
The godfathers of Greek independence
From its very inception as a nation state, Greece learned that it needed allies with shared interests and values to successfully fight the Turks
2020: Refugees continue to suffer
Turkey blackmails Europe, Greece adopts a policy of deterrence, and the EU remains divided
Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline
Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Conflict in the Caucasus
How much worse will the historic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh get?
How much longer can Greece and Turkey avoid war?
Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows last summer, and the risk of war remains
Turkey: neither Neo-Ottoman nor Universal Islamist
Western leaders are misconstruing the nature of Turkey’s government and its mission at home and abroad
Erdogan’s Hagia Sophia move
Turkey has gone from darling of the EU, to Germany’s worst nightmare
Turkey’s migrant war with Greece
Greece puts up a wall as Turkey besieges Europe with refugees
In defence of lockdown sceptics
Alistair Haimes is wrong – the facts against a third lockdown haven’t changed
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
The time of my life
Dominic Hilton explains why time itself has become his biggest enemy
Fair dinkum dictionary
Jonathon Green wonders if, despite this being a fascinating book, the author has set herself up for defeat
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
Is the delicensing of CGTN a good thing?
Even though the Chinese English-language news channel can be pretty poisonous, Andrew Tettenborn questions whether it should be banned
Fantasy of the magic money tree
Central banks will come under increased pressure to “do good” by politicians
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career
Ethiopia teeters as UK government is preoccupied by Covid-19
Developing countries that the UK assists are being sidelined as the UK government’s attention is seized by Covid-19 and domestic troubles
Is Hezbollah protected by the Lebanese political system?
And does Lokman Slim’s murder indicate a change in Hezbollah’s deployment of violence?