Georgios Karatzaferis ( el, Γεώργιος Καρατζαφέρης; born August 11, 1947) is a
Greek
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politician, a former member of the
Hellenic Parliament and the president of the
Popular Orthodox Rally
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. Previously, Karatzaferis was a member of parliament of the
liberal
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conservative
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New Democracy
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party. He is a former
Member of the European Parliament
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and former vice-president of the
Independence and Democracy group. His party's views, ideas, and electoral campaigns are often broadcast and promoted by the relatively minor private Greek
TV channel
TeleAsty (former Telecity), which he founded and owns. The party's ideas are also disseminated in the party's weekly newspaper, ''A1''.
Biography and career
Karatzaferis was born in 1947. In 1977 he founded R.TV.P.R. AE advertising body and he created the ''TV Press Video Review'' in 1983. In 1990 he established the radio and television stations ''Radio City'' and ''
TeleAsty'' (the latter was initially known as ''TeleCity'').
He received an honours diploma from the
London School of Journalism in 1994. He became an editor of the newspaper ''Alpha Ena'' in 2000. In the beginning of the 1980s he was also a columnist for ''Nea Poreia'', the official publication of the political organization to which he belonged and was an MP. He also wrote contributed to daily newspapers including ''Eleftheros'', ''Apogevmatini'', and ''Eleftheros Typos''. In 2005, he founded the
Academy of Communications Studies in Athens.
As a member of the
Greek Parliament
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his responsibilities included the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Watchdog Committee, the Public Order Committee and the Press and Mass Media Committee (1993–2000). He was a member of the Committees on Public Administration and Foreign Affairs (1993–2004), Member of the National Communications' Confidentiality Protection Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Greco Spanish Friendship Association (1999)..
Controversy
On different controversial remarks, Georgios Karatzaferis has publicly questioned why Jews did not "come to work on 9/11", suggesting that they were warned to leave the World Trade Center prior to the attack. He challenged the Israeli ambassador in Greece to come and debate on "the Holocaust, Auschwitz and the Dachau myth" and in 2001 he stated that "the Jews have no legitimacy to speak in Greece and provoke the political world. Their impudence is crass".
Books
Karatzaferis is also the author of five books which are the following:
* Το Μοντέλο της Δημοκρατίας - The Model of Democracy
* Η Γυναίκα Σήμερα - The Woman of Today
* Η Λιάνη στηρίζει την Aλλαγή - Liani supports the Change
[The ''Allagi'' (Change; Greek: Αλλαγή) was a slogan used by the ]Panhellenic Socialist Movement
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founded by Dimitra Liani
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Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργ ...
's husband Andreas Papandreou
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.
* Αγώνες και Αγωνίες της δεκαετίας 1990-2000 - Struggles and Agonies of the 1990–2000 decade
* Βίοι Αγίων - Biographies of Saints
* Η Λευκή Βίβλος - The White Bible
References
External links
Official WebsiteEuropean Parliament Biographical Record
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1947 births
Living people
Greek MPs 1993–1996
Greek MPs 1996–2000
Greek MPs 2000–2004
Greek MPs 2007–2009
Greek journalists
Greek bodybuilders
Politicians from Athens
Popular Orthodox Rally politicians
New Democracy (Greece) politicians
Greek anti-communists
Antisemitism in Greece
Alumni of the London School of Journalism