The Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendiastoday, Tuesday, September 2, a visit to the former camp “Theodoros Ziakas”, in the Municipality of Kordeliou – Evosmos Thessaloniki.

During his visit, the Minister of National Defense reviewed the land of the property, which is next to the Athens -Thessaloniki railway line.

The camp of nearly 130 acres remains inactive since 2006.

As announced, the minister was accompanied by The Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General George KostidisCommander of the 3rd Army Corps Lieutenant General Athanasios Garinisthe Commander of the MEPTRA Lieutenant General Nicholas Gallios and the Metropolitan of Naples and Stavroupoli Varnavas.

“As I have repeatedly said, an important priority of ‘Agenda 2030’ – is to ensure better wages and better life conditions for the staff of our homeland forces,” Mr Dendias underlined.

“And in order to be able to secure our staff we are already running a huge residential program, 1,059 houses, which will be completed very soon, in the summer of 2026, in less than 12 months from today,” he explained.

“But here we are in Thessaloniki, in the” Ziaka “camp, a very large area of ​​almost 130 acres, where we aspire to execute a very important residential and more housing program here,” he added.

“And not just the construction of more than 600 houses,” he continued, “but also to create a standard residential complex.”

“A small city that will upgrade the wider area, except of course it will solve housing problems and executives of the Armed Forces and part of Greek society,” he said.

Afterwards, Mr. Dendias went to the headquarters of the Metropolitan of Naples and Stavroupoli, where he had a brief discussion with His Eminence Barnabas, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance, George Kotsiras.