Angelos Kostopoulos
(Former US Army Foreign Area Officer, Graduate of the Hellenic Army Supreme War College, and former General Manager of GE Wind in SE Europe, and President of Blue White Capital LLC)
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As the fog of the post Iran and Afghanistan wars dissipates, it is clear that the state of Hellenism as personified by Greece and Cyprus has declined in the face of the emerging hegemony of Turkey in the region.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Neo-Ottoman Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey has reinforced its regional claims in the Aegean Sea and in Cyprus through its’ new-found strategy of “Strategic Depth.” Davutoglu’s views, “Turkey as the epicenter of the Balkans, Middle East, and the Caucasus, the center of Eurasia in general and is the Rimland Belt (1) cutting across the Mediterranean to the Pacific.”... Read more: English version and Greek version