An island of two halves: The holiday hotspot with a bloody history

Sky Newson juillet 20, 2024

The holes from bullets are seen on an abandoned building inside the war-torn U.N. buffer zone in divided capital, Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, June 6, 2024. Fifty years after war cleaved Cyprus along ethnic lines, tensions are rekindling along the 180-kilometer-long buffer zone separating Turkish Cypriots from Greek Cypriots. It's another potential source of instability in an already tumultuous region. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

For 50 years, Cyprus has been split in two by a military border, the constant reminder of a deadly conflict that has never been resolved.

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Publish date : 2024-07-20 01:01:00

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