Anastasios "Taso" Kiapos was a corporal in the Greek army. He served in the 2003 war fought between Socialist Greece and the Soviet Union on the one hand and Turkey on the other. On 7 June, he was part the first squad of Greek troops, commanded by Sgt. Yannis Pappas, to enter Istanbul with the intent of reclaiming it Pappas and Kiapos left the two bodies in Hagia Sophia.