Alkis Courcoulas

Alkis Courcoulas (b.1952) is a Foreign correspondent (Bureau Chief of Athens News Agency in Turkey 1984 – 2016), and columnist of many Greek dailies and news commentator on the Greek TV.

He completed his undergraduate education at the Law School of the University of Athens (1977) and studied political sociology in Paris. He received his postgraduate degree (DEA, 1978) from the University of Paris I Sorbonne Pantheon. He briefly worked in the University of Thessalonica and since 1980 is pursuing a career in journalism.

In 1997 was awarded the BOTSIS national Award on Journalism, in 1997 for his overall reporting from Turkey.

The same year he published the book “Imia, a critical approach of a Greek- Turkish crisis”, ATHENS 1997, SIDERIS

During the period of 1975-1979 he worked as an editor of the monthly review POLITIS.

In 1979-1980 he worked in the University of Thessalonica as an assistant in Political Science and Constitutional Law. Between 1980-1983 he worked in London at the BBC World Service. In 1983-1984 he worked in Brussels for the Permanent Representation of Greece in EEC. Since 1984 Mr Courcoulas works in Turkey, where he established the Athens News Agency office.