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 ...

Cyprus President Demetris Christofias outlined a proposal yesterday (11 October) that could speed up the island's reunification talks by opening the port of Famagusta, which is now a ghost city, to ...

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

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 ...

Turkish troops Thursday reopened parts of a Cyprus seaside resort that became a ghost town amid war in 1974, sparking controversy days ahead of an election in the breakaway Turkish north. The move at ...

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 ...

I was eager to listen to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly. As a prominent player in the Cyprus dispute, I was hoping to hear about the ...

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Why the presidential election in the island's Greek half probably won't mean an end to its forty years of division. A view of the ghost town of Famagusta from northern Cyprus on May 2, 2003. Cyprus ...