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 ...

In the summer of 1974, the lives of people in Cyprus were forever changed by the Turkish invasion of their island.

In the early seventies, Varosha shimmered like a jewel on Cyprus’s eastern coast, where the Mediterranean’s turquoise waters ...

Step inside the haunting remains of Varosha, once a glamorous Mediterranean resort frequented by celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot, now a ghost town frozen in time since the 1974 ...

Step inside the haunting remains of Varosha, once a glamorous Mediterranean resort frequented by celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot, now a ghost town frozen in time since the 1974 ...

Cyprus on Tuesday harshly criticised plans by a Turkish Cypriot politician to re-open parts of an abandoned holiday resort to ...

PARALIMNI, Cyprus — The government of ethnically split Cyprus on Tuesday lodged formal protests with the United Nations and the European Union over a decision by Turkey and breakaway Turkish Cypriots ...

Nikos Hristodulidis, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, has announced that they have applied to the United Nations Security Council regarding the attempts to partially open the Varosha ...

VAROSHA, Cyprus -- The freshly paved street with its new bicycle lane markings meanders through the heart of abandoned Varosha in ethnically split Cyprus' breakaway north, to a crumbling cinema in ...

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 ...

Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Network of Young Parliamentarians expressed their keen interest in the issue of Varosha during a visit to the Famagusta Municipality Cultural Centre in ...