| Yannis Kapsis | |
| Office: | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece |
| Term Start: | 1982 |
| Term End: | 1989 |
| Primeminister: | Andreas Papandreou |
| Birth Date: | 1929 |
| Death Date: | 13 November 2017 (age 87–88) |
| Death Place: | Athens, Greece |
Yannis Kapsis (1929 – 13 November 2017) was a Greek journalist and politician who was deputy foreign minister from 1982 to 1989, under Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.[1] [2]
From 1974 to 1982, he was editor of Ta Nea, then Greece's highest-circulation newspaper.
During his term of office, he negotiated the well-known moratorium between Greece and Turkey over the 1987 Aegean crisis.
He was the father of prominent journalists Pantelis and Manolis Kapsis.
He died in Athens on 13 November 2017.[3]