DERYNEIA, Cyprus – Time virtually stopped in 1974 for the Mediterranean tourist playground of Varosha. When Turkey invaded Cyprus in the wake of a coup by supporters of union with Greece, thousands of ...

Visitors walk on a street lined with derelict buildings at the fenced-off beachfront eastern town of Varosha in October 2020.BIROL BEBEK/AFP/Getty Images After Turkey took control of northern Cyprus ...

FILE PHOTO: Varosha, an area fenced off in no man's land along ceasefire lines by the Turkish military since the 1974 division of Cyprus, is seen from a beach in Famagusta in the breakaway state of ...

FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (Reuters) - Barbed wire and concrete-filled oil drums surround Maria Riri Myles' family apartment in a snake- and rat-infested no-go zone of northern Cyprus occupied only by ...

Varosha (Maraş in Turkish) in the city of Famagusta in Cyprus is nothing like a regular town. If you ever get a chance to visit this town, located in the southern quarter of Cyprus, you won’t find ...

A sandy beach fringing a ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become Turkey’s latest front as it pushes for a two-state solution on the divided island and defends the enclave’s claims ...

AN ABANDONED town in Cyprus, once popular with A-list celebs in the 1970s, may welcome tourists back for the first time in nearly 50 years. The sandy paradise of Varosha, located in Northern Cyprus, ...