biography
| name: |
Karamanlis, Konstantinos
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also spelled Caramanlis
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pronunciation:
[karamanlees]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–98)
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| biography:
| Greek statesman, prime minister (1955–63, 1974–80), and president (1980–5, 1990–5), born in Próti, Greece. A former lawyer, he was elected to parliament in 1935, became minister of public works (1952), then prime minister, and formed his own party, the National Radical Union. During his administration, Greece signed a Treaty of Alliance with Cyprus and Turkey. After his party's election defeat in 1963, he left politics and lived abroad, but returned to become premier again in 1974, when he supervised the restoration of civilian rule after the collapse of the military government. He then served as president. |
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