PROFESSOR NEOKLIS SARRIS- Brief Biography

Neoklis Sarris was born in Istanbul.
He is a graduate of the Great School of the Nation.

He studied law, and political and economic sciences at the Universities of Istanbul and Athens and psychology in Geneva. Honorary Doctor at the University of Thessaloniki.

He is a Professor of Sociology of History at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.
Former Head of the Sociology Department.

At the age of 20 he was political advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch, Athinagora.
He excelled in student contests both in Greece and Turkey.

He was associate consultant and friend to the presidents of E.DE.Κ, Georgos Mavros and Giannis Zigdis. Following the latter’s death he was elected president of the of the Democratic Center party,  thus taking fourth place in the prestigious succession of leaders which had begun with Georgos Papandreou.

He is a distinguished author of publication and teaching material, and has been published in numerous scientific journals as well as in the daily and periodical press. He has also taken part in many international conferences in Greece and abroad.

His main works are:

• “The other Side- Political and Diplomatic Diary of the Invasion and Dismemberment of Cyprus” Vol 3
• ”Ottoman Reality” Vol3
• “Foreign Policy and Political Developments of the first Turkish Republic” Vol3
• “Pre-revolution Greece and Ottoman Rule”
• “Greek Society and Television” Vol2
• “Philosophy of Society and State; first vol Ancient World”
• “second volume of Patristic Orthodoxy and Byzantine Thought”
• “The Family in Turkey”
• “Introduction to Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama”

Neoklis Sarris  has a son, Alexandros  Sarris.