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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Two men, now friends, a bullet to the head and an olive tree

"Two men, now friends, a bullet to the head and an olive tree
By Stefanos Evripidou

IT’S NOT every day that a man who shot you in the head asks you to lunch but this coming Saturday, Yiannis Maratheftis will sit down for lunch with Fat’hi Akinci in Lefka, 35 years after the latter put a bullet in his head.

The two men fought for opposite camps in 1974, meeting in less amicable circumstances during a battle in Lefka, where Akinci shot Maratheftis in the head."

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