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 ...

A sandy beach fringing a ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become Turkey’s latest front as it pushes for a two-state solution on the divided island and defends the enclave’s claims ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Varosha, an area fenced off in no man's land along ceasefire lines by the Turkish military since the 1974 division of ...

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 ...

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 ...

This beautiful seaside town used to draw crowds of A-list celebrities, but but hastily abandoned by its residents in the ...

On a Cyprus hotel reception desk, health questionnaires on the coronavirus sit mostly untouched near a bottle of hand sanitizer. There is hardly a guest left as tourism has all but collapsed on the ...

A ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become the latest pawn in the conflict surrounding Turkey’s drilling for natural gas off the island’s shore. The breakaway Turkish Cypriot state ...

When Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders meet for land-for-peace talks on Monday aimed at ending the island's decades-old division, the future of a famed orange-growing centre will be a core dispute. A ...

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 ...