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The Trojan Horse is a famous legend in Turkey. Legend has it that
the Greeks and the Trojans fought for years on end, but that the fight-
ing was inconclusive.
Finally, the Greeks retreated, leaving behind a large wooden horse

before the walls of the city of Troy. The Trojans imagined they had won
the war and dragged the wooden horse, which they regarded as a tro-
phy of war, inside the city and began celebrating their victory. While
the Trojans were busy celebrating, Greek warriors concealed inside the
wooden horse emerged, opened the city gates to the rest of the Greek
army and sacked the city.
Events in Yemen today are reminiscent of that legendary war in

Anatolia many thousands of years ago. However, there is no wooden
horse in Yemen, because efforts are being made to turn Yemen itself
into one. The sides in Yemen are also unclear, unlike those in the leg-
end of Troy; there, the two sides were the Greeks and the Trojans,
while there are numerous sides in Yemen. There are those fighting
directly and those acting as their guardians.

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