What’s Tom Barrack, the US Ambassador to Turkey, up to? That’s a question that’s emerged after a recent interview he gave to Kathimerini, where he talked about Washington’s aspiration for a “new regional ordinance” and made head-scratching comments about Greek-Turkish relations and Cyprus. Henri Barkey and Endy Zemenides join Thanos Davelis as we look to tackle this question.Henri Barkey is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University.Endy Zemenides is Executive Director of HALC.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:The US ‘goal’ is to serve as a ‘bridge’ in Greek-Turkish tiesPM urges farmers to avoid roadblocks, pledges faster subsidy paymentsGreece to repay €5.29 billion early under first memorandum loans

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