Prokopis Pavlopoulos

'It is universally acknowledged that these sculptures belong rightfully and culturally to the Parthenon and its monuments,' the Greek President said.

Pavlopoulos also insisted that Ankara must comply with international law on a series of issues affecting its relations with Greece.

'It is my country. It is my fatherland. I can’t tell you how happy I felt when I heard the PM say, ‘You are from here.'

In failing to protect universities, the state proves that it is essentially unable to protect academic freedom. In ignoring the pleas of the academic community, the state is failing to uphold basic rights.

When FYROM citizens refer to 'Macedonians of the Aegean', they refer directly to an irredentist tradition that views the geographically largest part of Macedonia, which is the northern province of Greece, as an unliberated territory, essentially as a Greek-occupied part of their country.

“The Prime minister cannot hang out to dry the foreign minister, who negotiated the Prespa Agreement, which is national policy,” sources close to Kotzias said.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos issued a thinly veiled call for the two countries to agree to take the issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.