Famagusta gate in Nicosia will be brought back into active use during the EU council presidency, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Friday.Speaking at the inauguration of the ...

Now ancient Famagusta, tucked into a modern city of 35,000 people, is largely forgotten, except, perhaps, as the setting for Shakespeare's Othello. Atlantide Phototravel / Corbis "All ships and all ...

“It was a ghost town to me until I met a Varoshian. I never called it a ghost town again after that, because it’s not a ghost town; we made it into a ghost town. It’s the Varoshians that made me ...

The Turkish Cypriot community, and especially Famagustians, are mourning the deaths of 24 of their brightest and most accomplished children along with 11 parents and teachers in the devastating ...

Famagusta, on the east coast of Cyprus, was once one of the most glamorous resorts in the Mediterranean. Its miles of pale sand and clear turquoise sea made it a destination for the Seventies jet-set, ...

Cyprus President Demetris Christofias outlined a proposal yesterday (11 October) that could speed up the island's reunification talks by opening the port of Famagusta, which is now a ghost city, to ...

Once located in the midst of high-volume shipping lanes, a forgotten city with multiple European influences could be lost forever without an intervention Helen Starkweather Now ancient Famagusta, ...