Konstantinos Bogdanos

Turkey’s turmoil and the taboo question: is Islam compatible with democracy?

Turkey’s turmoil and the taboo question: is Islam compatible with democracy?

Turkey doesn’t flirt with democracy. It flees from it. So can it ever wear the Western mantle of free elections, independent courts and rights guaranteed? History says no, and the why cuts deeper. Some EU nations have first hand knowledge and experience of this reality. Greece, most of all, has danced this dance before – we know the steps, we have faced the crescent time and again. Europe’s turn is coming. Will it listen to the warnings? By Konstantinos Bogdanos Turkey’s democratic façade collapsed on March 19, when Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – the West’s secular poster boy – was…
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Greece: corrupt elites bring a nation to its knees, Brussels beware…

Greece: corrupt elites bring a nation to its knees, Brussels beware…

The people of a great nation are left poor, as the oligarchs play on the Athens Riviera! What has happened to Greece? How has a once-proud nation, with a rich history and potential, descended into this miserable state? As Greece is nowadays diving deep into Weimar Republic times, with poverty going hand in hand with painful national compromises that are in the pipeline vis a vis Turkish demands in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, in the mid-term one can expect anything from the humiliated Greeks. By Konstantinos Bogdanos The numbers from Eurostat’s 2024 report are indisputable and grim: While…
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Nenikékamen! We won!

Nenikékamen! We won!

The relay baton is being passed. Had Kamala Harris won, the West in five years would be utterly broken and unrecognisable. Now some of the damage can be mended. Our generation’s marathon race has begun. God willing, one day we will be able to look our children in the eye and say: Nenikékamen. Donald Trump’s victory is one against those who want to see our children childless, godless, without a moral compass or ethical backbone, deprived of any sense of reason, stripped of property rights and freedom of expression, slave workers of the globalist overlords. By Konstantinos Bogdanos After the Athenians beat…
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