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Inside Cyprus' 'ghost town' - a 100-mile demilitarised zone
These haunting images give a glimpse of the 100-mile long demilitarised zone which has split Cyprus for more than 50 years. Whole towns were abandoned by the buffer zone, created in 1964
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In its heyday, Varosha, on the island of Cyprus, lured the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot (inset), but it has fallen into ruin since it was seized by Turkish troops during a war in 1974.
These haunting images give a glimpse of the 100-mile long demilitarised zone which has split Cyprus for more than 50 years. Whole towns were abandoned by the buffer zone, created in 1964
More than 550 Greek Orthodox churches, chapels & monasteries located in towns & villages of the occupied areas, have been pillaged, deliberately vandalized & demolished
These images show the decay which has eaten away at the parts of Cyprus swallowed by the UN's buffer zone in the wake of Turkey's invasion of the north of the island in 1974.
Eery images of abandoned buildings in the city of Varosha, Cyprus, which has been derelict since a Greek-inspired coup in 1974, have emerged. It formerly attracted stars like Brigitte Bardot.
