Eleni Const/ides

Journalist - Researcher /#Greece, #Cyprus, #Turkey/Historical Doc Film maker (Former #ERTSAT & #mfa for #AbroadGreeks)
Thracian/ Lived in S. Africa.

[Johannes A. Niederhauser @JohannesAchill]

What does it mean to be a Greek hero? Why is Achilles so fundamental? Is all he is a brute fighter driven by his anger? Not at all. Achilles is the archetype of European manhood. As his teacher Phoenix says to him, he has learnt "to be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds".
Thus Achilles is the archetype of the new aristocracy which finds expression in the Iliad. Achilles' Arete, his virtue, is such that he combines the virtues of action with the virtue of the word and hence thought.
Odysseus continues this journey and thus represents the first moment of Greek paideia (even though that word is not yet in use at that time).

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

Turkey has transformed into a major exporter of military equipment after two decades of state investment. They're looking to build on that momentum as the West rearms.
https://t.co/dCDbGfKaER

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

That‘s factually untrue. Türkiye goes after its own interest, including tolerating Russian presence in Syria for the sake of balancing Israel, and boosting Ukraine‘s defence to reduce the expanding Russian influence in the wider Black Sea. But they also continue with their ties.

[Eleni Const/ides @Helen_SA2]

@mariathena https://t.co/zNPkyBK12E

[Financial Times @FT]

Turkey probes 95-year-old Rahmi Koç over ‘derogatory’ joke https://t.co/VRQKROk59F

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Israel Pauses Iran Strikes At Trump's Request To 'Stop Shooting' - But Warns 'Full Intensity' Lebanon Ops To Persist https://t.co/Fmdbef9Dze

[David Pyne 🇺🇸 @AmericaFirstCon]

Israel is threatening to nuke Turkey and Egypt if Isrseli PM Benjamin Netanyahu decides to engage in an unprovoked war of imperial aggression and conquest against them. The US should threaten to wipe out Israel's military if they attack Turkey since it is a NATO member state.

[Peter Germanos 𐤐𐤕𐤓𐤗 @GermanosPeter]

الايراني ليس لديه ورقة في يده غير لبنان. يقوم بالمستحيل للإبقاء على وحدة المسارين،

أوروبا مع إيران بنسبة كبيرة، كونها تخشى اتصال الإسلام الاسيوي مع الإسلام التركي، ولها مصالح كبيرة مع طهران، وعلاقتها سيئة مع الولايات المتحدة وذراعها اسرائيل،

[Reuters @Reuters]

Switzerland goes to the polls on June 14 to vote on whether to cap its population at 10 million people in a referendum some have likened to a 'Swiss Brexit,' alarming many businesses who fear an economic blow should the proposal succeed https://t.co/o8EkPoNItf

[Vanessa Martinez @Van101Martinez]

@HomerPavlos When I think that I wrote a screenplay about Theseus and the Minotaur, which I dream of filming in Greece, and that Nolan, with his screenplay based on a wokist book that has nothing to do with Homer's Odyssey, steals money from the Greek government to insult the Greeks. It's 😡

[Mark Cutis @markcutis]

With Irene Papa one actress who personified in totality what it is to be a Greek woman. In her presence lived the ancient virtues and passions of Greece: pride, fierce determination, maternal instinct, dignity, and strength. They don’t make them like that anymore. Then again, legends belong to another age.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Friendly reminder: Iphigenia of Euripides by the Greek Michael Cacoyannis is one of the greatest (and most underrated) movies ever made. Made by Greeks, in the Greek language, with Greek actors, and with love and passion for our history.

[Toit.As.A.Toiger @Athreyu69]

@HomerPavlos I Personally Feel
"Trojan Women" By Cacoyannis
Is Criminally Underrated ...
Powerhouse Dream Cast 😍

Irene Papas
Plays A Magnificently Manipulative Helen

Lupita and No;an Could NEVER ...🤦‍♂️

[Tim @TimurNegru]

Forget the islands. Here's what you can buy in the Peloponnese.

3-bed house, 100m2 (1,076 sqft), on a 1,006m2 plot (¼ acre).

About 1.5 hours from Athens. 800m to the beach, Saronic Gulf views, and charging ~€295/night on Airbnb in July.

Asking: €350k ($403k).

Greece, still full of surprises.

[Θάνος Πλεύρης @thanosplevris]

Σήμερα η ΑΠΟΓΕΥΜΑΤΙΝΗ δημοσιεύει δημοσκόπηση που το 55,3% των πολιτών στηρίζει τη συμφωνία μας με Γερμανία, Αυστρία, Ολλανδία και Δανία για τη δημιουργία κόμβων επιστροφής (return hubs) σε χώρα εκτός της ΕΕ για να απελαύνουμε τους παράνομους μετανάστες.Η ρύθμιση ψηφίζεται αύριο.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.

[taipan168 @taipan168]

On the plane leaving Athens after a sensational 15 day trip to Greece. The ancient sights were amazing, the food and wine delicious and cheap, the island relaxing and the people so warm and welcoming.

Efcharistó Elláda (thank you Greece), I'll definitely be back! 🇬🇷🤩

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Russia wanted to Donbass because there are Russians there.

If anybody really looked at the unbiased news, you'll see, after 2014, what happened. Ukrainians in Odessa started dragging Russians off the street, beating them. They chased a whole bunch into the trade union building and set it on fire and burned them alive.

That's what started the whole separation movement.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Turkey's Erdogan is gradually moving away from Putin's Russia. https://t.co/SSP8XssreI

[Marios Karatzias @MariosKaratzias]

🚨 #BreakingNews

Turkish forces just harassed the Greek state aircraft carrying Defence Minister @NikosDendias to Cyprus this evening — along with the planes of EU Defence Ministers from France and the Netherlands.

All three aircraft were en route to Nicosia for tomorrow’s informal EU Defence Ministers’ Council on European Security, hosted under the Cypriot Presidency.

In other words: European ministers just got a live demonstration of what it means to be an EU member state under continuous occupation and threat by Turkey — the same country that constantly complains it isn’t getting enough “EU benefits.”

According to @cvenizelos / @philenewscy:

• The illegal “control tower” at occupied Tymbou airport interfered with communications.
• Two Turkish F-16s scrambled from the same occupied air base and shadowed the European ministers’ aircraft.

This isn’t a one-off. Turkey pulled the exact same stunt during previous informal EU meetings in Cyprus.

Yet today — while Ankara pretends it wants to “warm up” Euro-Turkish relations and the UN envoy begins fresh talks — it still can’t resist provoking Europe right in its own backyard,violating its own air space !

So… will the EU or the ministers involved issue a strong condemnation for this blatant violation of Cyprus’s sovereign airspace?
Or does that only happen when the victim is a Baltic state? 🤔
#Cyprus #EU #Turkey #EuropeanSecurity #EUDefence