Golden Dawn, one could read on this site: “They try to implicate Popular Association – Golden Dawn in the crime committed in Keratsini, for purely political reasons, whereas there is no evidence that the perpetrator had any political motivations whatsoever”88. The site publishes its own reports on various subjects ranging from the military and defence to history, religion, technology and the environment. As far as defence and foreign policy are concerned, the administrators’ orientation may be seen clearly in their comment on the recent visit to Turkey by Evangelos Venizelos, leader of PASOK, minister of foreign afairs, and deputy prime minister in the Samaras government: “Having hastened to visit Ankara as a ‘pilgrim’ on the eve of the Turkish invasion of martyred Cyprus, and having made statements about ‘a modiication of the Greek-Turkish boarders’, the Greek Minister of Foreign Afairs was now welcomed by the Turks with a bucket of shit on his face, as they accused him of fomenting terrorists”89. At the same time, and despite its favour for an outit as anti-Semitic as Golden Dawn, Defensenet.gr does not hesitate to hail the energy agreement between Greece, Cyprus and Israel as a “historic” one90, in line with Golden Dawn’soicial position. Let us note, by the way, that the neo-Nazi party does not question the Greek pro-Israel foreign policy91, thus adopting discretely the oicial Greek defence strategy. Another reference of this milieu is the weekly pro-Nazi militaristic newspaper Stochos (“Target”), which also runs a daily blog on matters of defence and security. Stochos irst appeared in 1985 as a nationalist newspaper; its speciic version of nationalism was described by its founder, Georgios Kapsalis, in an interview given in 1997 to Nikos Galanos, a member of the Nationalists’ Union of Rethymno, an organization well-known for its own history of violent fascist acts: “What the enemies have done to the Greeks, the Greeks will do to the enemies. What they have bloodily taken from us, we will bloodily take back; there is no other way”92. Between 2009 and 2012, the newspaper’s milieu made public interventions through the group “Uncommitted Patriots”, organizing and/or supporting, along with Golden Dawn, anti-Turkish rallies (e.g., against Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit in Greece) and anti-immigration demonstrations, making public statements against the citizenship bill, participating in irredentist events with slogans such as “Monastiri-Gevgelija, Hellenic Land”, etc. Since 2001, the publisher has been Savvas Hatziparaskevas, who is close to the current prime 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 72 | “Crime in Keratsini: They are politicizing it and pointing to Golden Dawn”, Defencenet. gr, 18 September 2013 (last accessed on 1 October 2013. See http://www.defencenet.gr, 23.7.2013 (last accessed on 8 August 2013). Cf. “A historic energy agreement between Cyprus, Greece and Israel”, http://www. defencenet.gr, 7 August 2013. This direction is already suggested by the rather neutral formulation in the text of the party’s “Political Positions”: “Today that the natural gas of the Cypriot EEZ is at the centre of international interest, Hellas, and not Israel, should be the guarantor of Cyprus’ integrity”, http://www.xryshaygh.com/index.php/kinima/thesis# ixzz2bQEhS1tj (last accessed on 9.8.2013). “The unpublished interview by the late Kapsalis”, www.stoxos.gr, 13.5.20008 (last accessed on 8.8.2013). ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG