Theodoros Pangalos

Theodoros Pangalos    ( politician)
Born	17 August 1938  Eleusis,  Greece
Died	31 May 2023 (Age 84)
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Sorbonne
Children	5
Party	United Democratic Left, Communist Party, Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Relatives	Theodoros Pangalos
Greek politician  Deputy Prime Minister of Greece In office 7 October 2009 - 17 May 2012 Boss Lucas Papademos, Panagiotis Pikrammenos Serving with Evangelos Venizelos  Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs In office 22 January 1996 - 18 February 1999 Succeeded by Giannos KranidiotisGeorge Papandreou

Not to be confused with his Theodoros_Pangalos_(officer), his namesake grandfather

Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek politician and leading member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He was deputy prime minister of Greece, responsible for the coordination of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) and the new Economic & Social Policy Committee from 2009 to 2012.

Background

Pangalos was born in Eleusis, Greece, on 17 August 1938. He was the grandson of General and 1926 dictator Theodoros Pangalos.

Political career

Pangalos was member of the left-wing Lambrakis Youth and, in 1964, a candidate for the Hellenic Parliament with the United Democratic Left (EDA). He studied law and economics at the University of Athens. Pangalos opposed the 1967 military dictatorship, and was deprived by the junta of his Greek citizenship in 1968. In 1973 he received his doctorate in economics at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he worked as a lecturer, in research and also as director of the Institute for Economic Development until 1978.

Pangalos became a member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), rising to its Central Committee, before eventually joining the PASOK socialist party. He was elected for the first time as an MP in the 1981 general election with PASOK and has been continuously re-elected since until 2012.

In 1996 he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and held the post until his resignation in 1999, in the aftermath of the scandal involving the leader of PKK, recognized as a "terrorist organization by the EU, Abdullah Öcalan: helped by Greek intelligence agencies Öcalan entered Greece illegally and was then deported to Kenya, where he was captured by Turkish agents with the help of the CIA after leaving the Greek embassy at Nairobi. Pangalos was criticized for not securing guarantees from Kenyans for the safe transfer of Ocalan to [the Netherlands]], but he covered himself by that he had been absent from Athens for three days and was not following the case.

Pangalos came under fire when he said in 2018 on a radio show “The only good Turk is a dead Turk. I believe this because I have not come across a good Turk. They lack basic appreciation.”

Pangalos was briefly made Minister for Culture in 2000, an appointment which was widely criticized, in view of his previous statement that artists who had protested his handling of the Öcalan affair were kouradomanges (Greek: κουραδόμαγκες, "turd tough guys").

Pangalos died on 31 May 2023, at the age of 84. His remains were cremated on 2 June.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1988	3 June 1988	5 June 1988	Austria Interalpen-Hotel Telfs-Buchen	The 36th meeting, 114 participants
Bilderberg/1993	22 April 1993	25 April 1993	Greece Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel Vouliagmeni	The 41st Bilderberg, held in Greece
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada

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