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ABSTRACT
Turkey’s recent slide into authoritarianism will have implications for its close neighbours in the West. Especially Greece cannot avoid negative spill-over effects. A coalition government comprising Syriza and Independent Greeks does not have an unconstrained set of policy choices in responding to this. Maintaining effective working relations is a paramount interest but achieving this is easier in principle than in practice especially considering the issues of asylum seekers and Turkish revisionism on the Lausanne Treaty. Unlike the two parties that dominated the Greek political scene after 1974, PASOK and New Democracy, the current government has little experience navigating choppy diplomatic seas with Turkey.
Acknowledgements
Dr. Christofis would like to thank the University of Macedonia’s Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies Department for hosting him as a post-doctoral researcher for 2018-2019. Dr. Baser and Dr. Öztürk would like to thank University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for hosting them as visiting researchers during the completion of this article. Dr. Öztürk would like to thank the Swedish Institute for funding his research in 2018/2019 academic term. The authors would like to thank Dr. Leonidas Karakatsanis and Dr. Zenonas Tziaras for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive feedback.