Following the anti-colonial liberation struggle of 1955-59 in Kypros, Brittish colonialism managed to impose the Zurich and London agreements. Instead of our beloved Enosis, in reality an ancient Greek goddess, the people of Kypros found that our island was declared into an independent republic. Among others, the Zurich aggreements mixed Turkey in the affairs of Cyprus, naming turkey a guarantor and giving her the right to intervene.
In 1974, there was a coup by the Greek junta against President Makarios. "Ah, don't worry, we'll fix things", said Turkey. Never intending to let such a chance go by, Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974, and on the pretext to restore constitution. Nevertheless, and despite the fact that the nominal president was saved and returned back to Cyprus since December 1974, Turkish occupation army is still there.
According to the customs of the military, Turkey gave a name to their military operation.
What was the name of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus?
The name was 'Attila'. It was called the Attila Peace Operation.
More years passed by, and with them even more blood and water, sweat and tears, and electrons, flowed in the appropriate streams of human affairs.
In yet one more incident of the so many incidents of human history, a group of our soldiers were yesterday continuing their military training. As a consequence of the years having passed by, our National Guard replaced the First World War riffles, usually referred as Martini no. 4, with which our people faced the Turkish invasion, and is now using modern enough weapons. So, our soldiers were actually training on a French anti-tank missile. Alas, an accident happened, and 18 of our youth were injured. One of them was immediately airlifted to Tel Aviv.
According to the customs of the military, the French anti-tank missile had a name.
What was the name of the missile?
The name was 'Attila'. It was called the Attila anti-tank missile.
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