Alexis Papahelas

In January 2016 he created and is the principal presenter of the current affairs program "Istories" (Stories) on Skai TV, together with Pavlos Tsimas, Sia Kossioni, and Tasos Telloglou.He returned to Greece in 1998 and wrote for the newspaper To Vima as well as co-hosting, with Pavlos Tsimas and Tasos Telloglou, the news program "Mavro Kouti " ("The Black Box") on Mega Channel for two years.Papahelas has interviewed several important political figures in Greece along with various international figures, among them the military commander of the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos,[7] in his jungle headquarters in Mexico, Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah,[8] former UN Secretary General Kofi Atta Annan, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and financier George Soros.Papahelas is the creator of a pioneering series of history documentaries, including one on the 1922 destruction of Smyrna with rare interviews and footage,[9] the 1967-74 dictatorship in Greece, the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the issue of Missing Cypriots [el].[10] The cover of the book displayed a never-before published photograph of Giorgios Papadopoulos, which the coup later installed as dictator, on a hunting trip with Greek American CIA agents.