National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias attended a ceremony on Tuesday for the repatriation from the Cyprus Republic of the remains of six Greek soldiers who died during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The arrival of the identified remains was welcomed by a guard of honor at the Elefsina Air Force base and a memorial prayer service was held. "Today Greece is fulfilling a historical duty and does what is self-evident. It pays due honor to the dead and justice to their families. After decades of expectation, it is repatriating the remains of six soldiers from Greece who died heroically during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. It is bringing back, in other words, its dead to their homeland," Dendias underlined at the start of his address. Dendias noted that this duty entailed an eons-long tradition of Hellenism to collect, pay honor to, and respect its dead. "For the last five decades, the search for and identification of...