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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A cruise ship visiting the second largest city in Cyprus Tuesday caused an uproar after handing out "welcome to Turkey" flyers to its passengers, according to a local news outlet. The Cypress ...

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 ...

KATO PYRGOS (Cyprus) Trapped between sea, mountains and politics, the Greek Cypriot town of Kato Pyrgos is losing hope of an end to its isolation amid the slow progress by rival leaders to reunify the ...