The military junta of 1967 is now remembered as one of the darkest stains on modern Greece’s democratic journey — a stark reminder of how fragile democracy can be when fear, foreign ...

Public Domain On April 21, 1967, Greece woke up to a military junta taking over power ... Greece and establish a democratic government. All Greek junta members were arrested and brought to trial; it ...

The rallies were called under the pretext of the commemoration of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, which was a massive student demonstration against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

Constantine II, the present ruler, was promptly faced with crisis and eventually by the military coup d'état on April 21, 1967 ... and allowed to leave Greece; he has since been working hard from ...

A landmark murder trial implicating ... he had been handpicked by ex-Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos to lead a far-right youth group after the fall of the junta in 1974.

ATHENS: Greece and Cyprus today ... including opponents of the military regime, to the first meeting of its kind since the military seized power in Athens in 1967. Nicosia Radio announced earlier ...

On July 24, 1974, the military dictatorship that had ruled Greece for seven years collapsed ... The king was removed from power by the junta in December 1967 and did not return even after its ...

In the fall of 1974, the political landscape was vastly different from the spring of 1967, when the colonels’ coup occurred. Karamanlis’ decision to legalize the Communist Party of Greece (KKE ...

The production, based on the title of a 1962 musical review composed by the legendary Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis, is set during the stone years of the Greek military junta between 1967-74 ...

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising of November 1973, when students and citizens rejected the Greek military Junta of 1967 to 1974. On November 14, 1973 ...