Opinions – Member Suggestions

1 Izmir Center of Turkish Diplomacy The regional aspirations of the Turks towards the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the countries of North Africa By Christos Minagia 02 May 2011 www.geostrategy.gr On 9-4-2011, it was announced by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu that, according to a directive from Prime Minister Erdogan, it was decided that the region of Izmir and the […]

THE COMPETITION BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN IN THE MIDDLE EAST. PROSPECT OF A PREVENTIVE MILITARY COUP AGAINST IRAN By Vice Admiral (retd) Vasilios Martzoukos, H.R. Honorary Commander of the Hellenic Navy, Chairman of the Board of Directors/ELISME. INTRODUCTION The geostrategic interests of the U.S. and Iran in the Middle East are not easy to compare. The U.S. is a superpower and the long-term effort […]

ARMED FORCES: THE VICTIM OF POLITICAL POPULISM AND PARTY OWNERSHIP. For the post-political Greek political reality, an issue becomes political and needs to be addressed only when it provokes such reactions in public opinion that the political world feels them as popular pressure and as a potential threat of non-re-election. Since 2004, a […]

VISIT OF THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER TO ATHENS By Lieutenant General (ret.) S. Panagopoulos The much-discussed working visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens was completed at noon last Saturday (16/5), at the head of a ten-member delegation of his Council of Ministers and a group of approximately 100 businessmen, which, in addition to its populist communication purpose, both Ankara […]

POLITICAL DIALOGUE GREECE – TURKEY By Lieutenant General (ret.) S. Panagopoulos Following the visit to Ankara of Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Droutsas, as announced jointly with his counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, a new effort to re-approach to bridge the differences between the two countries is beginning. Already on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Ministerial Conference, […]

REVERSAL IN THE GEOSTRATEGIC POLICY OF THE USA By Lieutenant General S. Panagopoulos The US efforts to include Ukraine in its sphere of influence through NATO have failed. For two years now, the US has been facing serious difficulties, not only due to Russian resistance, but also to the internal political relations of Ukraine, with the then […]

DRAFT LAW ON SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HIERARCHY OF THE ARMED FORCES EXECUTIVES (ED. ISSUES OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE ED., STRATEGIC AND RELATED PROVISIONS) Under Lieutenant General (ret.) S. Panagopoulou On June 26, 2010, EL.E.S.ME sent a letter to the Political leadership of the Ministry of National Defense (Minister and Deputy Minister), as well as to the Military (General Staff of the Hellenic National Defense, General Staff of the Hellenic General Staff), in which it analyzed issues […]