SEPTEMBER 2020 ROUNDUP: Cold War ghost still haunts the East Med

Radio EastMed’s Editor-in-Chief Ertan Karpazli rounds up all the latest news and developments from the Eastern Mediterranean for the month of September 2020.

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2 min readOct 7, 2020
Protest held in support of Armenia in Cyprus (Twitter).

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PODCAST: Cyprus becomes the black sheep of the EU

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PODCAST: The dawn of a new Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

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