Libya, Turkey, and the battle of maps in the East Med
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Over the past month we’ve seen a battle of maps in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the Tripoli-based government in Libya, backed by Turkey, raising the temperature with Greece. Thanos Davelis brings on Constantinos Filis, the director of the Institute of Global Affairs and a professor of international relations at the American College of Greece, as we dig into Greece’s Libya conundrum and break down whether it’s time for Athens - given Ankara’s role here - to rethink its Turkey strategy.
You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:
Greece’s tricky Libyan balancing act
Time for Athens to rethink its Turkey strategy
Warming waters transforming Greece’s seas
Greece condemns Turkey’s marine parks as ‘unacceptable, unilateral and illegal’
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