Cypriots in Famagusta | Cyprus Mail

We visited Varosha, the part of Famagusta in Cyprus that used to be the main beach and tourist area - and has been a ghost town since 1974, left exactly as it was, before being unilaterally opened by the Turkish side in 2020. We also talked to some visitors there, a few Greek Cypriots and a Turkish Cypriot.

Interviews by Theo Panayides and Nick Theodoulou.

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[leeknows_air_fryer]

GIVE our country back, GIVE my father's house BACK, FREE our country

[eternalspirit]

Sad watching this for all Cypriots and that Turkish Cypriot was right if all the Cypriots could get together the Cyprus problem would be solved
Shame on the powers that be

[christroullous]

Where is the west and American to see this and they kept their mouth shut shame on you all is 50 years

[billh]

Abandoned cars, buildings demolished, ruins everywhere, no family life or children, no restaurants serving up food and music, no happy people that I could see, just tourists. It's really pathetic. BUT, at the same time there are huge possibilities for renewal that I can imagine perhaps companies or entities wanting to restore and bring back from the dead the former happier times.

[ToWaRdS_HAPİNNES]

Before the 1974 the greek cypriots was killing the turkish cypriots.We are as a country should have done someting in order to protect them and we did we prevented the genocide.You have to respect us 🇹🇷 long live The north cypruss