Never forget #Cyprus 🇨🇾!

The illegal #Turkish invasion of 1974 and the ongoing unlawful occupation. Over 200,000 people were displaced 51 years ago, and to this day they still dream of returning to their ancestral lands.

#FreeCyprus

Glamour to ghost town: the fate of one Cypriot beach resort – in pictures
Rusting Coca-Cola sign in the abandoned Cypriot resort of Varosha
[I was there in 1981 on an undergrad internship with the Cypriot government working on an environmental impact statement/study on the Akrotiri Salt Marsh and on a trip to the north side got to venture up as far as the security fence on the Varosha beach] #Cyprus #SimonsRock #Ruins #FreeCyprus
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jun/08/glamour-to-ghost-town-the-fate-of-one-cypriot-beach-resort-in-pictures
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Glamour to ghost town: the fate of one Cypriot beach resort – in pictures

British-Cypriot writer Alex Christofi has documented the decay of a once-elegant town, abandoned when Turkey invaded in 1974

the Guardian