Cypriot politician
Kyriakos Mavronikolas (born 25 January 1955) is a Cypriot Movement for Social Democracy politician. He served as the Cypriot Minister of Defence from 2003 to 2006, and he sat as a Member of the European Parliament for Cyprus from 2009 to 2012, when he vacated his seat and was replaced by Sophocles Sophocleous.[1] Mavronikolas is a graduate of the University of Athens faculty of medicine, and outside politics he works as an ophthalmologist.