Journalist death.

Prominent left-wing journalist and commentator Giorgos Delastik, who wrote for Kathimerini among other Greek dailies over the course of his lengthy career, died yesterday morning at the age of 68, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported. His op-eds for Kathimerini also appeared in Kathimerini English Edition, signed G.G. de Lastic. Delastik was born in Athens in 1952 and graduated from Patra Polytechnic in 1952 before taking up a career in in journalism in 1979. Over the course of his career he also wrote for Rizospastis, Proti, To Paron, Eleftheria Larissas and Ethnos, from which he retired in 2015, as well as for the magazine Epikaira, and made appearances on radio and television.