Phantis:Selected anniversaries/February 15
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- 1998: Glafkos Clerides was re-elected President of Cyprus.
- 1999: Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, left the Greek Embassy in Kenya and was arrested by Kenyan officials who handed him over to the Turks. The event sparked reactions in Greece that led to the resignation of three government ministers.
- Births: Dimitrios Vikelas, author, first President of the International Olympic Committee (1835), Andreas Papandreou, politician (1919)
- Deaths: Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the Greek War of Independence (1843), Lysimachus Kaftantzoglou, architect (1932)
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