2012

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Events

January

• January 7: Fanis Gekas signs for Samsunspor thus becoming the first football player from Greece to sign for a Turkish side.
• January 13: Standard & Poor's downgrades the credit rating of Cyprus by two notches pushing it into junk status.
• January 26: The Athens Stock Exchange General Index makes impressive gains of 3.93% closing at 766.23.

Deaths

January

• January 13: Lefteris Antoniadis, legendary Greek-Turkish footballer.
• January 13: Rauf Denktash, Turkish-Cypriot leader.
• January 17: Johnny Otis, Greek-American singer, musician, talent scout.
• January 20: Ioannis Kefalogiannis, politician
• January 24: Theodoros Angelopoulos, film maker