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 ...

Strange images reveal the decay of an abandoned seaside town named Varosha, a beloved Mediterranean hotspot of celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, until the deadly 1974 Turkish ...

The town actually belonged to the Ottoman Empire's Lala Mustafa Pasha, who bought and handed over it to a foundation named after him, according to the Northern Cyprus administration. Following ...

Northern Cyprus has reopened part of the beachfront Varosha resort, which had been abandoned since Turkey invaded the Mediterranean island decades ago. The Turkish Defense Ministry declared the area ...

Northern Cyprus says it will soon reopen the derelict district of Varosha, a once popular tourist resort that has remained a ghost town since the Turkish military invasion of the the island decades ...

NICOSIA, CyprusNICOSIA, Cyprus — The pristine, azure waters lapping at the skirts of uninhabited Varosha contrast sharply with the dilapidated, crumbling buildings lining the beachfront of this ...

Three days have passed since an anti-occupation gathering organised by Famagusta municipality but the negative comments by political parties continue. They have all expressed their disapproval of the ...

VAROSHA, Cyprus (AP) — There’s a groundswell of anger among thousands of Greek Cypriot refugees who fear their property in the Turkish-occupied ghost town of Varosha could be forever lost. Once the ...

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 ...

Once a glamorous hotspot for the world’s rich and famous, the Cypriot resort town of Varosha has stood frozen in time for over 50 years but now, after decades of abandonment, it may finally reopen.

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 ...