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 ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish and northern Cypriot officials met on Saturday in an abandoned town wrecked by war to discuss potentially re-opening the area after 46 years, a move that Ankara said was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

AFP is republishing this story which has been selected by the agency's chief editors as one of the best of the week. Pictures by Amir Makar. Video by Dounia Mahieddine Chained swings eerily creak in ...

Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy. Situated ...

NICOSIA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Cyprus on Tuesday harshly criticised plans by a Turkish Cypriot politician to re-open parts of an abandoned holiday resort to the public, saying it ran contrary to ...

Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy.

Varosha has been abandoned since 1974 - Copyright afp/AFP Roberto Pfeil Varosha has been abandoned since 1974 - Copyright afp/AFP Roberto Pfeil The EU on Tuesday told ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — There’s something regal in the sprightly step and curious gaze of the long-horn sheep that roam the hills near Varisia, an abandoned village inside a U.N. buffer zone that cuts ...

Cyprus is a place we think we all know. A majestic and mystical Mediterranean island blessed with the most beautiful sandy beaches and rolling hills. It has a reputation for being a safe and sunny ...