Leonidas Kyrkos
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| Λεωνίδας Κύρκος | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Greece |
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In office 1984 – 1989 |
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In office 1981 – 1984 |
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October 12, 1924 Heraklion, Greece |
| Died | August 28, 2011 (aged 86) Athens, Greece |
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| Children | Miltos Kyrkos |
| Parents | Michail Kyrkos |
Leonidas Kyrkos (Greek: Λεωνίδας Κύρκος; 12 October 1924 – 28 August 2011) was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.
Leonidas Kyrkos was born in Heraklion, Crete, to Michail Kyrkos, who, along with Ioannis Pasalidis, formed the United Democratic Left in 1951.
In his teens, Kyrkos joined the communist youth and in 1941, he joined the resistance against the German occupiers. He enrolled in Human medicine at the University of Athens but never came to graduate. In the Greek civil war following Greece's liberation in 1944, Kyrkos was arrested for his membership in the Communist Party and was sentences to death. Only international pressure helped him and a number of his comrades survive and eventually become free in 1953. He later worked as a journalist and from 1958 on as one of the editors of leftist newspaper I Avgi.
Kyrkos was elected MP to the Hellenic Parliament in the elections of 1961, 1963 and 1964. On 21 April 1967, during the coup d'état that installed the military junta, he was arrested and remained imprisoned for five years. After the restoration of democracy in 1974, he was elected MP in 1974 and 1977, and MEP in 1981 and 1984.
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