Yannis Kapsis

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 MinisterAndreas Papandreou
Personal details
Born1929
Died13 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 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. Κυβέρνησις ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ 1981
  2. Κυβέρνησις ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ 1985
  3. "Veteran journalist, politician Yiannis Kapsis dies | Kathimerini". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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