deviousdiva on April 1st, 2008

Teacher Dude posts a photograph and some words about the far-right politician Kyriakos Velopolous and the party he is a member of (LAOS). Go and read his post and the Kathimerini article he links to.
Nice to know that such fine, upstanding educated folk are representing the people of Thessaloniki in parliament.

Yvette Jarvis on September 24th, [...]

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deviousdiva on September 24th, 2006

Yvette Jarvis, the first black woman to hold public office in Greece, is looking to win a second term. This time she is affiliated with New Democracy rather than Pasok (socialist) but as she told Athens News, her campaign remains unchanged.
improving life in Athens for all its residents, including immigrants who have no vote [...]

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deviousdiva on May 22nd, 2006

The storm continues over the nomination of the Muslim woman, Gulbeyaz Karahasan as a candidate for the prefect of Xanthi-Kavala-Drama in Northern Greece. She has now been accused of making statements to the Turkish newspaper Vatan saying
that the Muslims of Thrace are Turks, while she declared that her idol is former Turkish PM Tansu Ciler
She [...]

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deviousdiva on May 21st, 2006

In the case of the kidnapping of 28 Pakistani men by Greek and British agents, we have this ridiculous comment from Vyron Ploydoras, the Public Order minister
Mutual kidnapping is the national sport in which members of the most amiable Pakistani community in our country indulge
He came up with that gem in a parlimentary [...]

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