His first steps were made with the Greek Union for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, founded by center-left politician Michail Charalampidis. In 1988, he was arrested following an incident at the Unknown Soldier's Memorial in Athens, when he threw the wreath deposited by the then Mayor of Constantinople Bedrettin Dalan, who as an officer of the Turkish Armed Forces participated in the turkish invasion against Cyprus, and later became involved in the seizure of vacant properties of Greeks in Constantinople.