Pangalos to press charges against leftist daily

Socialist veteran Theodoros Pangalos said on Monday that he plans to press charges against Avgi newspaper for reporting that, as foreign minister, he turned in Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan to the Turkish intelligence service in 1999.

Speaking to Skai on Monday, Pangalos said that his resignation following the notorious incident was a result of US pressure on Greece’s prime minister at the time, Costas Simitis, on the grounds that he was supporting global terrorism.