About Tasos Kourakis
Lived 1948 – 2021 (aged 72–73). Tasos Kourakis was a Greek politician, geneticist, physician, pediatrician and writer.
Anastasios ("Tasos") Kourakis (; 1948 − 10 October 2021) was a Greek pediatrician, geneticist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 until July 2019 he served as Alternate Minister of Education.
Biography Born 1948 in Thessaloniki, Kourakis studied medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been an Associate Professor of Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine of Aristotle University.
In 2002 and 2006, he was elected a member of the municipal council of Thessaloniki heading his list. From 2007 on, Kourakis has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Thessaloniki A on Syriza's list.
Following the June 2012 elections, together with Theano Fotiou he was nominated for the post of education minister in Syriza's Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. After the January 2015 legislative election, Kourakis was appointed Alternate Minister of Education.
He died of cancer at the age of 73, on 10 October 2021.
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Greek politician
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Tasos Kourakis was born in 1948 in Thessaloniki.
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Tasos Kourakis died on 10 October 2021.
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Tasos Kourakis was a politician, geneticist, physician, pediatrician and writer.
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