A view of the abandoned Greek Cypriot neighbourhood of Varosha in this May 2, 2003 file photo. Derelict apartment blocks and crumbling hotels riddled with bullet holes sit on empty beaches behind barbed-wire fencing after Varosha's 15,000 residents fled in 1974, when a Turkish invasion sparked by a Greek-inspired coup split Cyprus. However, if peace talks between estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots succeed, Varosha could be one of the first Greek Cypriot areas to be revived, one of scores of abandoned areas creating a buffer separating the island's Turkish and Greek populations for three decades. Reuters Pictures 1 week ago

A view of the abandoned Greek Cypriot neighbourhood of Varosha in this May 2, 2003 file photo. Derelict apartment blocks and crumbling hotels riddled with bullet holes sit on empty beaches behind barbed-wire fencing after Varosha's 15,000 residents fled in 1974, when a Turkish invasion sparked by a Greek-inspired coup split Cyprus. However, if peace talks between estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots succeed, Varosha could be one of the first Greek Cypriot areas to be revived, one of scores of abandoned areas creating a buffer separating the island's Turkish and Greek populations for three decades.

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