Education
Born in a peasants family, he graduated in 1988 at the faculty of dentistry of the University of Istanbul, then worked for two years in Germany before coming back in Greece for the military service.
Born in a peasants family, he graduated in 1988 at the faculty of dentistry of the University of Istanbul, then worked for two years in Germany before coming back in Greece for the military service.
He was elected to the Greek Parliament for SYRIZA in the Greek legislative election, May 2012.
In 1995, he served as secretary general of the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association, and between 1996 and 1999 as member of the board of the Dentists Association of Rhodope. He became a member of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) in 1994, and entered the Maroneia-Sapes municipal council.