Once the jewel of Cypriot celebrity tourism, Famagusta's resort district of Varosha was the place to be. In the early 1970s ...

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 ...

A wire fence on a Cypriot beach is all that separates Pavlos Iacovou from the hotel he owns but has not visited in decades -- now a sudden decision from Ankara could change all that. The tourist ...

TIME virtually stopped 40 years ago for this glamorous and bustling tourist playground, and few people have set foot inside it ever since. Find out what happened. The town's crumbling, war-scarred ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-L) and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar (C-R) wave as they take part in a parade in the northern part of Cyprus' divided ...

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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, 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 ...