ELIAMEP Blogs » Dokos Thanos http://blogs.eliamep.gr/en Official Blog of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Thanos Dokos – The role of Greece in the wider region http://blogs.eliamep.gr/en/dokos/thanos-dokos-the-role-of-greece-in-the-wider-region/ http://blogs.eliamep.gr/en/dokos/thanos-dokos-the-role-of-greece-in-the-wider-region/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:56:03 +0000 Dokos Thanos http://blogs.eliamep.gr/en/?p=198 We were annoyed by Obama’s visit to Turkey, without a similar stop-over to Athens – obviously forgetting that after the welcome we reserved for President Clinton, future American Presidents will not show particular willingness to visit Greece.

We were unhappily surprised by Turkey’s strategic upgrade in Washington’s plans.

Obviously we didn’t give enough attention to Ankara’s methodical effort – especially in the last two years – to develop into an accepted mediator on a series of regional conflicts and to improve its role within the Muslim world.

And now we rush to highlight – unfortunately only in words and not in actions – the importance of Greece in the wider region.

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