Our View: Government moves to quell criticism over Erdogan meeting

It was rather amusing to hear the director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos responding to the scathing remark made by the former prime minister of Greece, Antonis Samaras, in an interview in a Greek newspaper, To Vima , that also touched President Nikos Christodoulides, who was clearly not the target.

Samaras had said that Greece’s prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Christodoulides were having a ‘fun exchange’ with Turkey’s