Lol not very bright.
Bet a few Greek Cypriot’s in the uk have steam coming out of there ears seeing those adds.

It’s hard to believe with Cypress. I have some Greek friends here in the US (Hellenic Greek and not Greek American) with ties to families in cypress. For them has “mandatory military service” a different meaning.. close to what it means to an Israeli.
Like you said, the border strip that divides the island is like the iron curtain back in the 60’s (not the “more relaxed” one of the 80’s).
What is the difference? West Germany (FRG) was member of NATO for military aid and part of the “marshal plan”, East Germany (GDR)was member of the Warsaw Pact for military support and COMECON (RGW) for economic support. Two conflicting Alliances military and economic.
Now Greece is member of NATO and so is Turkey. They are technically at War with each other. They agreed to a cease fire (which gets violated from time to time and leaves a young Greek private dead equipped with a assault rifle filled with blanks (standard NATO issue), shot by Turkish assault rifle filled with real ammo (also standard NATO issue)).
Greece is part of the European Union and Turkey applies to join it every now and then to be turned down because one of the EU members makes use of its right to VETO. I wonder which EU Member that is..
What happens if the cease fire ends for whatever stupid reason and open War breaks out again? Based on NATO mandate are the member countries obligated to support a NATO member that is being attacked. In this case Turkey and Greece would be under attack. How does that work out? Send east German born privates to Greece and west German born to Turkey that they can “shoot it out” together with the Greeks and Turks?
Makes you wish that you would have filled out the offers and “convinced” a few friends that ponzi schemes are not the same as pyramid schemes.
That way I would have gotten myself a nice XBOX 360, gambled all day and night to the point that the army would have rejected me because of “RSI”.
It is easier to cope with the credit card with 0 days grace period and 25% interest, the subscription for the brushes to the electric toothbrush I don’t have, which does not get me out of the 24 month term I must have agreed to and the other 3 offers I still don’t understand. hehe.
Well, see it from the bright side. Finally “nice” and “big” fireworks again in the beautiful mediterranean sea. Take a front row seat in Crete or get a cheap seat in the back in poor Sicily.
Ah, Europe, the old countries, which is obviously not related (at least not proportional) to the amount of wisdom like everybody wants you make to believe.
asalamu alaykum or eirini ymin my friends