Post by mouse on Apr 12, 2014 11:14:25 GMT -5
Pictured: Eerie scenes of long-abandoned airport, empty buildings and streets criss-crossed with barbed wire in Cypriot no-man's land where nobody has been since 1970s
Intimidating barbed wire curls across the landscape, as a watchtower commands the surroundings from high ground. Businesses, cars and buildings lay idle, as they have done for decades.
A few miles away, an airport stands, thick with dust while old aircraft decay by the landing strips outside. No commercial flights have run from Nicosia International Airport since 1977, once Cyprus's air hub, in the wake of an invasion by Turkish forces.
These pictures detail the eerie scenes in the UN's buffer zone which cuts through Cyprus, dividing the independent Republic of Cyprus from the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island.
Peacekeepers from the United Nations have patrolled the area for years in an attempt to prevent clashes between the populations of the two halves of the island.
In places their neutral zone spans miles, but in the old town of Nicosia, the island's capital, it is barely ten feet wide - but still filled with echoes of the past.
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Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603134/Cyprus-Eerie-scenes-long-abandoned-airport-buildings-streets-criss-crossed-barbed-wire-Cypriot-no-mans-land-1970s.html#ixzz2ygnAZdGD
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Intimidating barbed wire curls across the landscape, as a watchtower commands the surroundings from high ground. Businesses, cars and buildings lay idle, as they have done for decades.
A few miles away, an airport stands, thick with dust while old aircraft decay by the landing strips outside. No commercial flights have run from Nicosia International Airport since 1977, once Cyprus's air hub, in the wake of an invasion by Turkish forces.
These pictures detail the eerie scenes in the UN's buffer zone which cuts through Cyprus, dividing the independent Republic of Cyprus from the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island.
Peacekeepers from the United Nations have patrolled the area for years in an attempt to prevent clashes between the populations of the two halves of the island.
In places their neutral zone spans miles, but in the old town of Nicosia, the island's capital, it is barely ten feet wide - but still filled with echoes of the past.
Scroll down for video
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603134/Cyprus-Eerie-scenes-long-abandoned-airport-buildings-streets-criss-crossed-barbed-wire-Cypriot-no-mans-land-1970s.html#ixzz2ygnAZdGD
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