Turkey allows imprisoned Greek to attend son’s funeral

The imprisoned father of a train driver who died in a train derailment in Tempi must be released from a Turkish prison so he can attend his son’s funeral.

Citing sources, the media reported that this was the subject of a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday, asking that the decision not be made public until announced by the Turkish authorities. Sources said Dendias then spoke to the train driver’s family to brief them.

A prisoner serving a prison term in Turkey applied for compassionate leave last week to attend his son’s funeral, diplomatic sources said at the time.

As we reported previously, the dead driver, according to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was his personal friend, and on March 7, the current prime minister attended the funeral of the driver Spyros Voulgaris at the capital’s cemetery in Caesarjani. Which is rather strange, given the considerable class division in Greece.

At the same time, information about what cargo the freight train actually carried was not disclosed, as well as the reason why its route was not announced.

Spyros Voulgaris lived in Athens and spent three days at his birthplace, Lianoklady. Initially it was said that Spyros Voulgaris, being a train driver, was on the passenger train IC-62 as a passenger to Thessaloniki. His father then explained that his son was one of two drivers on a freight train bound for Athens.

Such strange behavior of the authorities and the constant change of information about the train cargo raise many questions from the public and, of course, work against the government. As a result, the unwillingness to reasonably explain the situation, what kind of cargo was transported by the train, this story is overgrown with speculation and gossip. And the versions say that the cargo was either contraband or something prohibited.

According to unconfirmed sources, the father of Spyros Voulgaris was serving time for smuggling. Is this fact a link in the issue of “secret” cargoes of the ill-fated freight train that met head-on passenger train flight IC-62 Athens-Thessaloniki-Evangelismos-Tempi?

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