About Ioannis Kapsis
Lived 1929 – 2017 (aged 87–88). Ioannis Kapsis was a 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.
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.
He was the father of prominent journalists Pantelis and Manolis Kapsis.
He died in Athens on 13 November 2017.
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Who was Ioannis Kapsis?
Greek journalist and politician
When was Ioannis Kapsis born?
Ioannis Kapsis was born in 1929 in Athens.
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Ioannis Kapsis died on 13 November 2017 in Athens.
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Ioannis Kapsis was a journalist and politician.
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Ioannis Kapsis was Greek.
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