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Marking the 96th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, the landmark pact delineating the modern Turkish state, President Erdogan on Wednesday stressed Turkey's "resilience in the face of external threats," signed after Mustafa Kemal slaughtered hundreds of thousands of hapless civilians of Greek, or Christian descent.

Greek and German Foreign Ministers Nikos Kotzias and Frank-Walter Steinmeier late on Sunday sent a message to Turkey to stop playing games with the Treaty of Lausanne.

The rhetoric of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directly or indirectly undermines the Treaty of Lausanne and the Greek-Turkish relations as well as the EU-Turkey relations," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday at a ceremony for his declaration as honourary citizen of Edessa, northern Greece.