[2] In the 1999 Ocalan affair, the Greek consul in Kenya, George Costoulas, harbored PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Ocalan moved from Syria to Italy to Russia to Greece and finally the Greek Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 2, 1999.

Kenyan Finance Minister Simeon Nyachae resigned rather than accept a demotion to head the Ministry of Industrial Development.

Frank Kwinga, who headed the Immigration portfolio, and Duncan Wachira, who was the Police Commissioner, were both dismissed from their positions.

[6] In the first half of 2003, Greece held the Presidency of the European Union and was subsequently elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.