Yannis Kapsis
Greek journalist and politician
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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]
Yannis Kapsis | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece | |
| In office 1982–1989 | |
| Prime Minister | Andreas Papandreou |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1929 |
| Died | 13 November 2017 (age 87–88) Athens, Greece |
From 1974 to 1982, he was editor of Ta Nea, then Greece's highest-circulation newspaper.
During his term of office, he was part of the miscommunication between Greece and Turkey that caused the 1987 Aegean crisis.[3]
He was the father of prominent journalists Pantelis and Manolis Kapsis.
