Each time Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces the media these days, there is one question he cannot escape. When will he call an early election? The conservative premier has been in power since July 2019 and still has 12 months left of his four-year term. But soaring energy prices, a thre ..
Last Updated On: Dec 12 2020 01:05 Gmt+3
On Thursday, a few hours before the leaders of European Union member-states were to discuss the bloc’s relations with Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a military parade in Baku, celebrating Azerbaijan’s triumph over Armenian forces (with Turkish assistance).
The European leaders may be divided over whether they should impose sanctions against Turkey for its belligerence against some of its members, but Erdoğan does not display similar sensitivities: In Thursday’s celebrations, he hailed the name of Enver Pasha, the Ottoman war minister who played a significant role in the Armenian genocide, as well as his brother, who commanded the Islamic Army of the Caucasus, which occupied Baku in 1918.