World Economic Forum

Since 1971, around 2,500 political, business, cultural and civil society leaders travel annually to the snowy Swiss mountains to meet in Davos. How would you describe the purpose and the impact of this gathering?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Feb. 9 hosted a leading delegation representing influential Jewish lobbying groups in the United States in a sign of Ankara's willingness to normalize bilateral ties with Israel.

The four-page document that Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades gave to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a meeting at Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum underlined once again how delusional it might be to expect a quick Cyprus fix.

If you asked who one of the heroes at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos was, I would say Hamdi Ulukaya, who was able to make the yogurt brand "Chobani," which he founded in the U.S. in 2007 and became the fastest growing company in history.

The Greek government will meet with the representatives of the Institutions to start the negotiations on all open issues on Monday, while talks will be carried out in two phases, according to Naftermporiki newspaper citing Finance Ministry’s information.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is coming to Greece with two new ‘bombs’ up its sleeve. Apart from social security reform that is already on the table, the IMF delegation is preparing to bring back discussion on group dismissals (from the second bailout agreement) and a joint wage chart (already voted on by Greek Parliament).

Turkey has made a diplomatic jumpstart to 2016.

Many people were puzzled when Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavu?o?lu separately met in Istanbul with Andreas Kyprianou, the secretary-general of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL). Particularly, the very fact that the meeting came immediately after a landmark trilateral meeting of the two Cypriot leaders with the U.N.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has appealed to Turkey to pull its troops out of Iraqi territory and instead provide training and equipment to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), one day after he held a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with ECB president Mario Draghi at Davos on Friday and they both agreed that the first program review must be concluded as soon as possible.

They also discussed the course of the Greek program and the reforms needed.