Marc Pierini

Marc Pierini joins Thanos Davelis to break down his latest piece for Carnegie Europe, "Turkey's dwindling international role," and look at how multiple crises over the last year and Ankara's contradictory foreign policy ambitions and rule of law deficiencies have impacted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's international standing. 

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have a "unique and historical opportunity to consolidate the steps taken so far" in relations between their two countries, according to Marc Pierini, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and former European Union ambassador to Turkey.

In the months since Turkish President Erdogan's reelection, we've heard a lot about the potential for a new page in EU-Turkey relations, and Erdogan even raised the issue of Turkey's membership in the EU at the July NATO summit.

EU capitals will refrain from freezing accession talks with Turkey in contrast to a recent European Parliament decision as doing so would be more counterproductive than helpful, according to a former EU envoy to Ankara. 

Many readers took exception to my giving links in my last piece to David Brooks of the New York Times, who wrote ?I am not Charlie Hebdo,? and to Jordan Weismann of Slate magazine, who wrote ?Charlie Hebdo is heroic and racist.? Others were angered by my asking why Maurice Sinet (Siné) was fired from Charlie Hebdo.