How and when did you find out about Varosha, and what do you find interesting about it?

I remember when I was younger, being taken to a lookout post in the south east of Cyprus. There was a long telescope that pointed not at the sky, but at an empty city. I was told this was the closest we could get – that the people who lived there had fled one morning in 1974, and no one had been inside since. I remember wondering whether I would ever set foot there and dismissing it as unlikely.

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