On Feb. 11, Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara. The two leaders signed cooperation and trade agreements and expressed interest in easing long-standing territorial disputes. The podcast examines the meeting’s implications for EU security, as the bloc considers closer defense cooperation with Turkish firms amid the Russia-Ukraine war, and also touches on the Cyprus issue.
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Publication:
22/02/2026
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Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Senior Research Fellow, Head, Turkey Programme; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies