Article 59TX5 'It's bittersweet': reopened Varosha highlights ongoing division in Cyprus

'It's bittersweet': reopened Varosha highlights ongoing division in Cyprus

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Bethan McKernan in Varosha, Cyprus
from World news | The Guardian on (#59TX5)

Tourists can return to crumbling resort in northern Cyprus - but Turkey's involvement has caused anger

Pavlos Iakovou was 17 when he met his wife, Tuolla, at the Edelweiss cafe in Famagusta, the fashionable Cypriot holiday resort where his family owned a hotel. Last week, the couple returned to some of their old haunts in the abandoned quarter of Varosha, or Mara in Turkish, for the first time in 46 years.

Sealed off as a militarised zone and untouched since 1974, when Turkey invaded following a Greek coup, the decaying slice of 1970s glamour is now open again to visitors - Greek Cypriots included.

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