When I was writing this article, the outcome of Sunday’s referendum in Italy was still not known
It was one year ago – November 2015 – when Alexis Tsipras, freshly re-elected as prime minister, paid a two-day official visit to Istanbul and Ankara.
A message appeared on WhatsApp: “Is something happening in Athens?”
The visit by outgoing American President Barack Obama next week to Athens was planned on the certainty that it was going to take place after the victory of Hillary Clinton. And that his keynote speech was to be delivered on one of world’s best known locations for the practice of democracy.
If there is one electoral promise that most political leaders in Greece failed to honor once elected to power, it is the size of their cabinet
Before you call him a man?
“Just before the dawn is the deepest darkness,” said the leader of the Greek leftist party of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, in his final speech on the closing day of his party’s second conference on Oct. 16.
My typical Sunday morning.
The unexpected reference by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Treaty of Lausanne in his latest address to local community leaders last week understandably caused a wave of reactions both by the opposition in Turkey and by the Greek political establishment
