Criminal, US intelligence/recruiting networks of impunity in Greek Academia, 2024 update

https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/category/%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BA/

Dear All

After temporarily removing all my publications from academia (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/on-academic-freedom/ )

you may still find most of them available.

*in pic an incognito visit by f. USA Ambassador to Greece to University of Macedonia!

This was a response to

• The continuous violation of academic freedom and freedom of expression in Greece. This undemocratic practice is forced by the criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece

(https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/07/14/elite-organized-crime/) and USA Embassy Athens (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-story-of-a-picture/) operating out of control with the full support of the judiciary.

• The blatant violation of human rights and academic freedom in Greece and UoM. (https://www.uom.gr/ies )
• The total lack of meritocracy and equal treatment in Greek tertiary education (https://www.academia.edu/36234106/%CE%A0%CE%91%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%9A_voskopoulos.pd)
• Being (since 2015) the target of unprecedented attacks that were blatantly ignored by judicial authorities, the university, the students’ union, justice, political system.
• The total lack of measures taken to protect me as an individual and academic.
• My elimination from teaching in post-graduate courses after I demanded transparency, meritocracy and equal opportunities. This in a department where I am the only one with the expertise in European Studies (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%af-%ce%b1%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%8a%ce%ba%ce%ae%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%ac%cf%81%ce%ba%ce%b5%ce%b9%ce%b1%cf%82/ )
• The reverse of the proposal to be appointed as Head UNESCO Chair of the University as “being the ideal candidate”(according to the previous rector-the letter is at my disposal). This change of policy came after I publicized a series of illegal behaviour by any academic standards and blatant issues of lack of meritocracy.
• The Department allowing colleagues with no or limited expertise on European Studies issues to teach courses outside their academic field
• (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/%ce%bf%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%bf%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%b1-%ce%b1%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%84%cf%85%cf%87%ce%b9%ce%b1%cf%83/ ). Colleagues who openly confessed total ignorance on a number of academic fields and courses have been teaching for years
• My being targeted by f. UoM rector (member of the Thessaloniki Tectonic Hall and USA Embassy protégé) for standing up for meritocracy and free speech (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/%cf%87%cf%89%cf%81%ce%af%cf%82-%ce%bb%cf%8c%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%b1/ ). He eventually orchestrated a defamation attack on me by asking a student to open up a petition in google and ask for my removal from the university.
• The orchestrated undermining of my academic career after I refused to endorse policies supported by diplomatic circles in the country. Eventually I have at my disposal written invitation to the USA, which I turned down.   

The attacks against me include (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMd63x-20Qw&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fgvoskop.wordpress.com%2F )

1. Life threats to me and members of my family. The lawsuits I have filed have been ignored, thus ridiculing any sense of rule of law and democracy.
2.  Intimidating acts within the premises of the university. Despite my repeated requests to academic hierarchy (Head of Department, Rector et al) the university has not taken any action nor has explicitly & publicly condemned these acts. Although I asked for the university senate to discuss the issue & provide a statement of support this has never happened, a very fact that constitutes a puzzle in itself. (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/%ce%b3-%ce%b2%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%86%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b6%ce%bf%cf%85%cf%83%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%83%cf%85%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%86%ce%bf%cf%81-2/ )
3. A series of vandalization acts of my car within the premises of the university closed parking lot. Eventually these were the only incidents that have ever taken place within the premises of the university, a fact that per se has its own semantics. (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/human-rights-violationsdemocracy-meritocracy-in-gr-tertiary-education-bullying/ )
4. The finding of a monitoring device inside my office. To this day I have not received an official response from judiciary and university authorities as to what the device was. Only an unofficial answer that is “was nothing’.To my knowledge the only witness(along with me)at the time the device was found has never been asked to testify in a legal investigation.
5. Violation of private data and hacking of my personal page. An IT expert that looked to it told me, “it was a professional job”.
6.  Continuous violation of private–family life to a degree that constitutes a blatant violation of human rights familiar only to autocratic & Soviet-style regimes.
7. Setting hurdles to employment opportunities of family members, despite their disposing of academic qualifications

To the above one should include

•  The request from the university authorities NOT to park my car inside the parking lot. This behavior constitutes a inexplicable choice that makes me wonder why not everyone is equal in terms of having access to university facilities.
• Hurdles to my ability to perform my academic work, a fact that goes beyond any sensible explaining and understanding. Despite my continuous requests to the university, I spent one whole semester without access to a computer equipped with a camera & a microphone. The university simply answered that these were not available, although they were indispensable for my e-classes at the time of the pandemic. I had to improvise & use YouTube to upload a series of audio lectures. This process was time consuming and did not facilitate academic interaction. Upon continuous requests I was given a portable computer for 2 weeks(15-29/9/20)just to be able to conduct exams. The very same day my exams finished(29/9)the university asked me to return the portable, which I did.
•  In October 2017 I had a three week sit in. I did not have classes. Instead I spent these hours at the university in my office(extra classes were offered after the sit-in.The reasons were explained in long and detailed communiqués. The basic issues were meritocracy, transparency, threats to my daughter & me and a number of criminal activities against me. (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%af-%ce%bc%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%84%cf%85%cf%87%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%ba%cf%8e%ce%bd/ )

I have filed lawsuits but to this day justice is not done.In a very indicative case a student asked to intervene as Head of the Department in a case of massive & extended in time cheats during exams.She printed out and gave me an exchange of messages in facebook where students confessed PUBLICLY that they were systematically cheating during the exams for years! Students confess that the exams |were like a party”(https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/%ce%b1%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%b3%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%86%ce%ad%cf%82-%cf%83%ce%b5-%ce%b1%ce%b5%ce%b9/ )

Cheating was only possible with the support of those who were in charge within the classrooms. The student asked me to do my administrative duty, which I did. I publicized the issue, wrote articles asking for a legal investigation not to an assumed but publicly confessed crime. As one of the students wrote in facebook “I have passed many courses this way”. This simply means cheating has been a standard practice for years.

Ever since I have been targeted systematically and my academic role has been greatly undermined within the department. At the same time I had resigned from several committees in my effort to protect my personal integrity. (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/28-11-2018/ )

 
Eventually the university inaugurated an investigation against me although a the aim of publicizing these facts was to protect the institution & the exam process (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/%ce%b1%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%b3%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%86%ce%ad%cf%82-%cf%83%ce%b5-%ce%b1%ce%b5%ce%b9/ )

My appeal to members of the current (2013) New Democracy government (ministerial level) to intervene and break the vicious circle of clientelistic / criminal practices were ignored despite the fact that I provided TANGIBLE evidence of illegal acts.  (https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bd/ )

One my reports was forwarded to the Hellenic Parliament and following a lawsuit I filed I testified in Internal Affairs. Yet, still NO legal steps were taken

U.S. – Greece academic engagement and academic freedom
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-story-of-a-picture/
Elite Organized Crime https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/07/14/elite-organized-crime/

Hurdles to academic work and academic decadence or when going becomes almost impossible, https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/hurdles-to-academic-work/

Αξιοκρατία/Meritocracy revisited

Δημοκρατία και ΑΕΙ

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Αποκατάσταση της αλήθειας

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος-Χαμηλές πτήσεις στο πανεπιστήμιο

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος-Αίτημα Σύγκλισης Κοσμητείας

Αξιοκρατία και ΑΕΙ

Meritocracy revisited

Κράτος Δικαίου στο πανεπιστήμιο;

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος-Αναγνώριση μαθήματος ΠΑΜΑΚ

Δύο αμείλικτα ερωτήματα για την ελληνική δικαιοσύνη-ΑΝΙΧΝΕΥΣΕΙΣ (11/2016) / Greek University Professor appeals to justice for violation of his rights and issues of academic freedom

Καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ για την διασφάλιση της ομαλής διεξαγωγής των εξετάσεων – Φοιτητικά Νέα

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Δύο παρεμβάσεις μου

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Απόδοση ευθυνών; (ενημέρωση)-ΝΕΟ 8/2/2018

George Voskopoulos – Bullying and intimidation

Μη Ομαλή Διεξαγωγή Εξετάσεων

Ζητείται επειγόντως ακαδημαϊκό και ερευνητικό έργο

Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος – Βανδαλισμός στο ΠΑΜΑΚ

Stavros Mavroudeas Blog-Παρέμβαση του για το ΠΑΜΑΚ (2011)

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, ενημέρωση 4/12/2017

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Η ΑΝΑΤΡΟΠΗ / Meritocracy Revisited

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Κοινοποίηση

Θεσσαλονίκη 24/11/2017

Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος – ΔΕΛΤΙΑ ΤΥΠΟΥ

Ρετρό-Καταγγελία για κοριό σε γραφείο καθηγητή στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, ενημέρωση 1/11/2017

ΣΚΗΝΕΣ ΝΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ, deltanews.eu

Προς Γ. Βοσκόπουλο

Αίτημα αναβαθμολόγησης λευκής κόλλας (μεταπτ.)

Συνεχίζεται για 3η εβδομάδα η καθιστική διαμαρτυρία καθηγητή του ΠΑΜΑΚ – τι καταγγέλλει-ΦΟΙΤΗΤΙΚΑ ΝΕΑ

Φοβερές καταγγελίες καθηγητή του ΠΑΜΑΚ: Απειλούν εμένα και την κόρη μου γιατί στέκομαι απέναντι στην “κομματική αριστεία” – Αδύνατο να επικοινωνήσω με Μητσοτάκη – ONLINE-PRESS

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Δελτίο Τύπου 9/10/2017

Καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ κάνει καθιστική διαμαρτυρία για απειλές που δέχεται ο ίδιος και η κόρη του!ksipnistere.com

U.S. – Greece academic engagement and academic freedom

Sometimes a pic tells the whole story. An incognito visit by the then #USA ambassador

@geoffpyatt to #Greece in UoM. Thessaloniki . The only one in Greece after a long stay in the country.

Many “why” questions and easy answers.

What was the actual purspose of this incognito visit?

Why this visit to my department and this very institution?

What explains this “selective engagement”?

Why former ambassador has targeted individual academics? (I am at the top of the list). Is this related to their refusing to “facilitate” the advancement of particular views in IR issues?

The f. amabassador’s interference in academia in the field of IR has created a dramatic vacuum of meritocracy, accountability that critically defines academic careers.

If the end justifies the means then he used everything to silence those who wished to enjoy academic freedom and the right(!!!) to have an opinion in a so called “liberal” country. That includes criminal acts (from life threats to whatever one could imagine) and a nework whose operation can only be found in banana democracies.

A basic rule for peace is NOT to injustice, not to mess with academic careers!

The tweet was removed by the univesity right after I posted it! There must be an explanation for this, too.

Elite Organized Crime

Masonic Hall of Thessaloniki et al

It used to be an elite but evolved into a huge criminal network operating out of control. Its multilayer links allow it to build a clientelistic web. Its modus operandi is based on the basis of the “means justifies the end”. This wide spectrum includes every aspect of criminal acts from life threats (even to academics) to extortion, blackmail, thugs. Cooperation with common crminals is an0ther means of “intimidating” those who stand in their way.

Its modus operandi is facilitated and eventually shielded by its links to the judiciary and the other societal and state institutions created to deal with corruption, support transparency, accountability in order to secure equal opportunities in liberal democracies. It is a pillar of an out of control criminal mechanism that operates beyond any norm and standard of democracy.

They constitute a shadow state apparatus protected by the judiciary whom they totally control. Academia is one of the fields they have rammed with obscure practices investing on favouritism and a cult of “exterminating” alternative choices. In practical terms they constitute a cancer tumor within the society using gangster methods to support their own people (I will refer to a recent example in academia at a later commentary).

The network is particularly active in the university, too, where it recruits members of academia and students who form a complex web of criminals and “bystanders” operating with the support of members of Hellenic Police (names and roles are at my disposal).

They are ruthless, since their ability to control state institutions leaves no space for justice. They have imposed a framework of kakistocracy with the collaboration of foreign diplomats. US embassy in Athens is particularly active in that. I will have to move on and take further steps in publicizing hard evidence.

To be continued…

See also

On academic freedom

https://wordpress.com/post/gvoskop.wordpress.com/6563

Δημοκρατία και ΑΕΙ

https://wordpress.com/post/gvoskop.wordpress.com/6005

U.S. – Greece academic engagement and academic freedom

https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-story-of-a-picture/

Γ. Βοσκόπουλος – Η. Κουσκουβέλης

https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/%cf%87%cf%89%cf%81%ce%af%cf%82-%ce%bb%cf%8c%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%b1/

Η Υπουργός, η διαφθορά και το Καθήκον-The Minister, Corruption and her Institutional Duty

When a Minister chooses NOT to take institutional action against corruption, despite the fact that she got tangible evidence! Evidence provided to Sofia Voultepsi, Deputy Minister of Migration and Asylum in charge of Integration, Member of the Greek Parliament, New Democracy of a criminal network operating at the university was ignored. Email exchanges available!

Η επιλογή συγκάλυψης από μέλος του Κοινοβουλίου και Υπουργού συνιστά παράβαση καθήκοντος;

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Human Rights Violations,Democracy-Meritocracy in Greek Tertiary Education – Bullying

(Info will be updated,check “comments” for details) In the last five years I have been the target of unprecedented attacks that were blatantly ignored by legal authorities, the university,the students’ union, justice, political system.No measures whatsoever have been taken to protect me as an individual and academic. These attacks include Threats to me & members of my family(I have filed a lawsuit,as in an incident involving a car threatening to rum my vehicle my daughter was also in danger) Intimidating acts within the premises of the university.Despite my repeated requests to academic hierarchy the university has not taken any action nor has explicitly & publicly condemned these acts. Although I asked for the university senate to discuss the issue & provide a statement of support this has never happened, a very fact that constitutes a puzzle in itself. My car has been twice vandalized within the premises of the university closed parking lot. These were the only incidents that have ever taken place within the premises of the university, a fact that per se has its own semantics. The finding of a monitoring device inside my office.To this day I have not received an official response from judiciary and university authorities as to what the device was.Only an unofficial answer that is “was nothing’.To my knowledge the only witness(along with me)at the time the device was found has never been asked to testify in a legal investigation. Violation of private data and hacking of my personal page.An IT expert that looked to it told me “it was a professional job”. Continuous violation of private–family life to a degree that constitutes a blatant violation of human rights familiar only to autocratic & Soviet-style regimes. To the above one should include The request from the university authorities NOT to park my car inside the parking lot.This kind of behavior constitutes a inexplicable choice that makes me wonder why not everyone is equal in terms of having access to university facilities. Hurdles to my ability to perform my academic work,a fact that goes beyond any sensible explaining and understanding.Despite my continuous requests to the university, I spent one whole semester without access to a computer equipped with a camera & a microphone.The university simply answered that these were not available, although they were indispensable for my e-classes at the time of the pandemic. I had to improvise & use YouTube to upload a series of audio lectures. This process was time consuming and did not facilitate academic interaction. Upon continuous requests I was given a portable computer for 2 weeks(15-29/9/20)just to be able to conduct exams. The very same day my exams finished(29/9)the university asked me to return the portable, which I did. In October 2017 I had a three week sit in.I did not have classes.Instead I spent these hours at the university in my office(extra classes were offered after the sit-in.The reasons were explained in long and detailed communiqués (they are being translated into En).The basic issues were meritocracy, transparency, threats to my daughter & me and a number of criminal activities against me.I have filed lawsuits but to this day justice is not done.In a very indicative case a student asked to intervene as Head of the Department in a case of massive & extended in time cheats during exams.She printed out and gave me an exchange of messages in facebook where students confessed PUBLICLY that they were systematically cheating during the exams for years! Cheating was only possible with the support of those who were in charge within the classrooms.The student asked me to do my administrative duty,which I did.I publicized the issue,wrote articles asking for a legal investigation not to an assumed but publicly confessed crime.As one of the students wrote in facebook “I have passed many courses this way”. This simply means cheating has been a standard practice for years. Ever since I have been targeted systematically & my academic role has been greatly undermined, not to mention the reverse of the proposal to take over the UNESCO Chair of the University as “being the ideal candidate”(according to the previous rector-the letter is at my disposal) Eventually the university inaugurated an investigation against me although a the aim of publicizing these facts was to protect the institution & the exam process * FULL MEMO IN “COMMENTS”

“Περιθωριοποίηση ή διώξεις μελών ΔΕΠ που ύψωσαν το ανάστημα τους σε ομάδες εξουσίας”!

Λανθάνουσα δημοκρατία – Έθνος-κράτος και μεταμοντέρνες ελίτ

Λανθάνουσα δημοκρατία – Έθνος-κράτος και μεταμοντέρνες ελίτ
Μέρος Ι

Γ. ΒΟΣΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ

Λανθάνουσα δημοκρατία – Έθνος-κράτος και μεταμοντέρνες ελίτ
Μέρος Ι

“A nation is a group of people who see themselves as a cohesive and coherent unit based on shared cultural or historical criteria”
“A State is an independent, sovereign government exercising control over a certain spatially defined and bounded area, whose borders are usually clearly defined and internationally recognized by other states”

Key words and concepts: Καταστατική αμφισβήτηση αξιακών προτύπων (“challenging foundational thoughts”), εθνοκρατικές αντιλήψεις, Maximal / minimal κράτος, Κράτος δικαίου / κράτος κυβερνώντων, εθνικισμός, έθνος-κράτος, “πολιτικοποιημένη κοινωνική ψυχολογία των ταυτοτήτων» (“politicized social psychology of identities”), νεο-θεσμικός αυταρχισμός, “πολιτικοποιημένη λανθάνουσα -ψευδο επιστήμη” (“Politicized Pseudo Science”), εθελούσια υποτέλεια
“A nation is a group of people who see themselves as a cohesive and coherent unit based on shared cultural or historical criteria”
“A State is an independent, sovereign government exercising control over a certain spatially defined and bounded area, whose borders are usually clearly defined and internationally recognized by other states”

Key words and concepts: Καταστατική αμφισβήτηση αξιακών προτύπων (“challenging foundational thoughts”), εθνοκρατικές αντιλήψεις, Maximal / minimal κράτος, Κράτος δικαίου / κράτος κυβερνώντων, εθνικισμός, έθνος-κράτος, “πολιτικοποιημένη κοινωνική ψυχολογία των ταυτοτήτων» (“politicized social psychology of identities”), νεο-θεσμικός αυταρχισμός, “πολιτικοποιημένη λανθάνουσα -ψευδο επιστήμη” (“Politicized Pseudo Science”), εθελούσια υποτέλεια

Σε σύντομη μορφή δημοσιεύτηκε στο slpress.gr στις 19/1/2024
https://slpress.gr/idees/lanthanousa-dimokratia-ethnos-kratos-kai-metamonternes-elit/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia: the case of University of Macedonia, Greece

PART I

In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.

In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Η σύγκρουση Ισραήλ – Χαμάς, η «εχθρική οντότητα» και η «τελική λύση»/The Israel-Hamas Conflict, the concept of “hostile entity” and the “final solution”

https://www.academia.edu/108872456/%CE%97_%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%99%CF%83%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%AE%CE%BB_%CE%A7%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%82_%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%B8%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CE%B7_%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B7_The_Israel_Hamas_Conflict_the_concept_of_hostile_entity_and_the_final_solution_?fbclid=IwAR3qW72jndVs93QfGmFXIwRBaTf50ZfqUbV_ONdGiRiocJ0YmFF60FftH8U

Academic Freedom – My LINKEDIN account compromised

G. Voskopoulos

Another blow to academic freedom and free speech. Unable to connect to my Linkedin account

À qui profitent les guerres ?

Le Monde diplomatique

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/profiteurs-guerres

European Security: The Balkans as a Geopolitical Multi-near Abroad

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366569903_European_Security_The_Balkans_as_a_Geopolitical_Multi-near_Abroad?fbclid=IwAR3JdC4QlmZNZt053tq8yBesTFPs_0XX5K5GcODUMkUKkehM1ZBAk7dBPx8

G. Voskopoulos

T. Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism as a New Sonderweg: from Nazi to Ottoman narratives

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376045907_Neo-Ottomanism_and_the_Concept_of_Sonderweg?fbclid=IwAR1fm8SeTzZWIv5bTCYlqygSDIQc9sYSO14Z-00nFb85jNpw1WH7IZZKNj0

G. VOSKOPOULOS, Assoc. Professor of European Studies, f. Head of Department

Academic Work Censored

After being an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Political Science & Public Affairs for years I found out that #AcademicFreedom was small print to my colleagues My article was rejected on the basis of criticizing T.Erdogan’s policies!”

After reviewing your manuscript carefully,it is about T. Erdogan,a #Turkish politician serving as the president of #Turkey since 2014. So we can’t publish any articles regarding a politician. I kindly request that you revise the article for publication”

MY RESPONSE

This is a ridicilous excuse violating academic ethics Please remove my name as a member of the Editorial Board from the site of the Journal

Many thanks for this apocalyptic response and I am sorry I have been a member of the Board for so long”

Turkish Europeanness in the Context of Turkey – European Union Negotiations