Kyriakos Velopoulos
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Kyriakos Velopoulos (born 24 October 1965) is a Greek far-right political activist and television personality.
Born in Germany, his parents were refugee peasants. After his graduation from Dentropotamos high school, he studied journalism and was awarded a scholarship.
During his compulsory military service in the Greek Army, he served as an officer on the islands of North-Eastern Aegean Sea, and the Greek mainland. He is a member of the Academy of the Greek language in Germany [citation needed] and a member of the Union of Writers of Northern Greece.
As a journalist he has worked in a number of radio and television stations, such as "TV Thessaloniki", "ΕΡΜΗΣ", "BEST", "TOP", "OPION", "Tileasty", where he presented his two major shows "Η ΒΟΥΛΗ" and "ΕΛΛΗΝΟΡΑΜΑ", in which he promotes his books.
He is the author of Greece Bleeds, which he claims deals with the corruption of Greek society, army, legal system and politics, and Alexander, the Greatest of the Greeks, a detailed biography of Alexander the Great which includes arguments on the subject's Greek origins.
He is a member of Popular Orthodox Rally, the orthodox-nationalist party of Georgios Karatzaferis and was a candidate in the 2004 Greek parliamentary elections in B' prefecture of Thessaloniki. He also was a candidate for the local elections of 2006 as Governor of Pella where he achieved 7,11%.
