CHaris Tsirkinidis

Charis Tsirkinidis was born in 1938 in Lekani, Kavala, to parents who were refugees from Pontus. His childhood memories are dominated by indelible images from the brutal German-Italian-Bulgarian occupation and the fratricidal civil wars of 1944 and 1946-49. The tragic stories told by his refugee parents about the Pontic genocide and the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the persecution of Greeks in Constantinople, and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, solidified his bitter conviction about the tragic fate of our homeland and the inhumane face of the world. In 1961, he graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy as a second lieutenant in the artillery. He served in units and headquarters in Greece and Cyprus. He is a graduate of the Hellenic Military Academy, holds a degree in Law, and is a graduate of the School of Foreign Languages (English and French). He attended the War Schools of France and Greece and served as a professor at the War School. He spent three years serving in the Greek embassies in Paris, Brussels, and Madrid as a Defense Attaché. He retired while serving as a military attaché at the Greek embassy in Paris. He is a historical researcher and has written historical books and historical novels.