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Yannis Kapsis

Yannis Kapsis

Greek journalist and politician

Yannis Kapsis (1929 – 13 November 2017) was a Greek journalist and politician who was deputy foreign minister from 1982 to 1989, under Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.[1][2]

Quick Facts Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Prime Minister ...

From 1974 to 1982, he was editor of Ta Nea, then Greece's highest-circulation newspaper.

During his term of office, he negotiated the well-known moratorium between Greece and Turkey over the 1987 Aegean crisis.

He was the father of prominent journalists Pantelis and Manolis Kapsis.

He died in Athens on 13 November 2017.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Κυβέρνησις ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ 1981. Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    Κυβέρνησις ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ 1985. Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Veteran journalist, politician Yiannis Kapsis dies | Kathimerini". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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