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From coast town to ghost town: Eerie photos show derelict houses, hotels and airports in Nicosia - the only divided capital city in the world.

July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Attila, Turkish code name for invasion

Pictures were taken inside UN 'no man's land' buffer zone 

112mile-long UN green line divides Turkish-occupied northern part of island from independent Republic of Cyprus

In the early 1970s, it was a top tourist destination, with golden sands, high-rise hotels and shopping precincts, frequented by the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.  Today, the streets on the shoreline of Famagusta's beach resort lie eerily silent, and have been for decades. 

 

Derelict Nicosia Airport

Nearby, surrounded by barbed wire, a plane sits forlorn on the tarmac - its tyres deflated and colours faded.   A control tower which once watched over the busy skies around Nicosia International Airport also stands derelict.

 

Everything here has been frozen in time since 1974 - the year of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.   These are the haunting scenes inside the city of Nicosia, which is now the only divided capital city in the world - separated by a UN 'green line' buffer zone.   Around 112 miles long, it divides the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island from the independent Republic of Cyprus.

 

July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of the invasion, codenamed Operation Attila by Turks who opposed a union with Greece.  Only Turkey recognises the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state that was proclaimed in the north.  The July invasion resulted in some 37 per cent of the island being captured by Turkish forces before a ceasefire was announced.

 

UN peacekeepers have patrolled the area for years to try and prevent clashes between the populations of the two halves of the island.  In places the neutral zone spans miles, but in the old town of Nicosia, it is barely 10ft wide - and still filled with echoes of the past...

 

Read more and see pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689220/From-coast-town-ghost-town-Eerie-images-derelict-houses-hotels-planes-Nicosia-divided-capital-city-world-Turkey-invaded-Cyprus-40-years-ago.html

 

Photos - Doros Partasides - Daily Mail

 

Map of Cyprus - http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/cy.htm

 

 

 

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Varosha - the abandoned city resort

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/world/europe/cyprus-resort-varosha-remains-sealed-off-to-visitors.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

 

 
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