Georgios Karatzaferis

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 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".

Legal battles

In December 2015, he was sentenced to a suspended one year prison sentence with three years probation, a 10,000 euro fine and an 18-month period of political disenfranchisement, for filing an incomplete statement of assets and income during the years of 2010, 2011 and 2012, while he was in office.

Books

Karatzaferis is also the author of five books:

• Το Μοντέλο της Δημοκρατίας - The Model of Democracy
• Η Γυναίκα Σήμερα - The Woman Today
• Η Λιάνη στηρίζει την Aλλαγή - Liani supports the Change
• 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

References

1. "Your MEPs : Georgios KARATZAFERIS". [[European Parliament]].
2. Newsroom. "Ο Καρατζαφέρης αποκαλύπτει τον ρόλο του: Πώς θα βοηθήσει τη ΝΔ στις εκλογές 2023".
3. "New Greek government includes ministers of antisemitic party". CFCA.
4. (2015-12-21). "Ένα χρόνο φυλακή με αναστολή και στέρηση πολιτικών δικαιωμάτων για 18 μήνες στον Γιώργο Καρατζαφέρη".
5. The ''Allagi'' (Change; Greek: Αλλαγή) was a slogan used by the [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] founded by [[Dimitra Liani]]'s husband [[Andreas Papandreou]].