"Nation (paper)"

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The Nation was a daily nationwide afternoon political newspaper published in Athens. It was first released on 26 October 1913 by Spiros Nikolopoulos. As of August 10, 2020 is an exclusively online newspaper.

History
This traditional newspaper of the Center was founded in 1913 by Spiros Nikolopoulos and after his death (1938) passed to his nephews, Kostas Kyriazis and Kostas Nikolopoulos until he was closed by the military dictatorship in 1970. From the first day of its release in 1913, the newspaper was militantly in favour of Eleftherios Venizelos, and continued its support for the centroo-Venizelist space throughout the following years, also starring in George Papandreou's "Andendodos Struggle".

On April 29, 1941, the occupation authorities closed the newspaper offices, which was reissued after 4 years and seven months, on January 29, 1945.

Since 1958, the editor-in-chief of the Nation was Giannis Kapsis, who gave the newspaper an intense anti-right character and a continuous focus on national issues and especially on the Cyprus issue.

During 1965-1967, the Nation was the newspaper that operated as the journalistic support of Andreas Papandreou, both against the Right and against the "Residants" of Constantine Mitsotakis. At that time Seraphim Phydanidis, Dimitris Marudas and Spyros Karatzaferis worked in the Nation.

Artemis Kyriazis (wife of co-owner Kostas Kyriazis) was also a columnist of the Nation and stood out for her pioneering articles on women's rights for the time.

During the dictatorship of the colonels the newspaper began a policy of bold confrontation with the regime. With surveys, republisheds of US Congress practices for Greece and other publications he exceeded the excavated that the regime had designated. The peak came in 1970, on the eve of the anniversary of the revolution of 1821, when John Zigdis, of the leading officials of the Centre, answered a question from the newspaper, called for the formation of a political government of national unity and a return to the democratic order "to prevent the threatening new national trials" in Cyprus. This statement - which later proved prophetic - was published as the newspaper's first theme, while Turkish Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri Chaglayangil on the same day threatened that "Turkey would not hesitate to resort to arms if the Turkish community itself or security in Cyprus were in danger."

The publication of the Zigd statement gave the pretext to dictatorship to close the Nation. The editors of Kostas Nikolopoulos and Kostas Kyriazis, editor-in-chief K. Economidis and editor-in-chief Giannis (Johnnis) Kapsis were immediately arrested. Two days later J. Zigdis was also arrested. They were brought to trial and on 1 April they were sentenced: I. Kapsis 5 years, I. Zigdis 4 1/2, K. Kyriazis 4, K. Nikolopoulos 3,