FAMAGUSTA (Cyprus) Kota Tanpa Penghuni Sejak 38thn Lalu (39 photos)

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Once a top tourist destination, now a ghost town

Varosha adalah sebuah daerah yang tidak diakui oleh republic Cyprus Utara. Sebelum tahun 1974 Turki menginvasi Cyprus, daerah ini merupakan daerah wisata modern di kota Famagusta. Pada tiga dekade terakhir, kota ini ditinggalkan dan menjadi kota mati. Di tahun 1970-an, kota ini menjadi kota tujuan wisata utama di Cyprus. Untuk memberikan pelayanan yang memuaskan kepada para wisatawan, kota ini membangun berbagai bangunan mewah dan hotel.

Ketika tentara Turki menguasai daerah tersebut, mereka menjaga dan memagari daerah tersebut, tidak boleh ada yang keluar masuk kota tersebut tanpa seijin dari tentara Turki dan tentara PBB. Rencana untuk kembali mengembalikan Varosha ke tangan kendali Yunani, namun rencana tersebut tidak pernah terwujud. Hampir selama 34 tahun kota tersebut dibiarkan dan tidak ada perbaikan. Perlahan bangunan-bangunan tersebut hancur, metal mulai berkarat, jedela pecah, dan akar-akar tumbuhan menembus dinding dan trotoar. Kura-kura bersarang di pantai yang ditinggalkan. Di tahun 2010 Pemerintahan Turki bermaksud untuk membuka kembali Varosha untuk para turis dan kota kembali bisa didiami dan akan menjadi salah satu kota yang paling berpengaruh di uatara pulau.

Famagusta Ghost Town

  In 1970 Famagusta was a major tourist center in Cyprus.  Due to the increasing number of tourists in the city was built many new hotels and tourist facilities, and especially a lot of them appeared in Varosha.  In the period from 1970 to 1974 the city was at the peak of its popularity and recognition enjoyed many famous personages of the time.  Among the stars who visited him were Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot.  In the Varosha housed many modern hotels, and on the streets has a large number of entertainment facilities, restaurants, bars and nightclubs.

  July 20, 1974 the Turkish army invaded Cyprus in response to the political upheaval in the country, and August 15 of that year, the Turks occupied Famagusta.  Since then Varosha precinct, looted and almost impossible to get there.


  Closed the quarter is surrounded by legends.  On the Internet there are lots of beautiful stories that are inside the shops filled with clothes, fashionable 38 years ago, and empty, but fully-equipped hotels.  In fact gvartal sacked in the first years after closing, and now there is not even left the window frames, not to mention clothes and cars.  Varosha has long been the most impressive symbol of the division of the island, inhabited by the ghosts of the past.



  01.  Summer 1974.  Varosha - a lively seaside town, where hundreds of foreigners flocked from all over Europe.  They say that Varosha hotels were so popular that the most luxurious rooms have been reserved in their forward-British and the Germans for 20 years.


  02.  Here lived or traveled in the rest of the cream of the business of Nicosia Cypriot society.  It was built luxurious villas and advanced by the standards of the 70s of last century hotels.  New Famagusta - so sometimes called Varosha - ran south from the ancient city walls along the east coast a few miles ...


  03.  Advertising Postcard of those years ... In the middle of August 1974 in Northern Cyprus Turkish troops landed.  14-16 August 1974 the Turkish army occupied 37% of the island, including one of Famagusta and Varosha its suburbs.  Residents of the fashionable suburb of Famagusta - and most of them were Greek Cypriots - were forced to leave their homes overnight.  16 000 people left in the full confidence that they would return in a week, maximum - two.


  04.  Since that was 32 years old, and the ability to enter into their house they never came.


  05.  The Greeks could observe a dead city through a telescope.  That's how it looks with the Greek part of Cyprus.


  06.  The Turks allowed near the town closer.  Inhabitants of Varosha are currently seagulls, rodents and stray cats.  Four kilometers of beaches with golden sand remain unclaimed for more than three decades.  At night, lit only by spotlights Turkish military positions.


  07.  Varosha was subjected to total plundering marauders.  First it was the Turkish military, were taken away to the mainland furniture, televisions and dishes.  Then, residents of nearby streets, destroyed all that was needed soldiers and officers of the army of occupation.  Turkey was forced to declare the city a closed zone, but it did not save him from total plunder: he was carried away everything that you could carry.


  08.  One of the residents of Varosha, forced to leave the city in the summer of 1974, identified a radio ... in Greece.  The woman recognized him from the characteristic scratching, and his initials.  On the question of where it came from the new owners, they explained that he bought almost nothing in one of Istanbul's markets.


  09.  As can be seen, carried all dazhi window frames.


  10.  The Turkish version of the name of Varosha - Marash


  11.  In 1974, Famagusta was the 109 hotels in 11,000 locations.  Part of the hotel complex Varosha is still legally a private property of citizens from 20 countries worldwide.  One of the hotel Varosha has been put into effect three days before the city was abandoned.


  12.  According to the Cypriot economist Kostas Apostilidisa, real estate Varosha (hotels, villas, land) can be estimated at 2 billion pounds


  13.  Residents of Varosha were forced to leave the city during the day.  The Turks allowed them to take only what you can carry on a


  14.  In February 1997 the government of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to protest against the intention of the Republic of Cyprus to buy Russian-made anti-missile systems threatened to settle Varosha abandoned by settlers from mainland Turkey.


  15.  In 1999 the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Rauf Denktash offered as temporary accommodation for hotels and homes of Varosha refugees from Kosovo.  The Republic of Cyprus protested.  According to the UN Security Council resolutions of 1984, Varosha could be settled only its indigenous inhabitants (or their descendants), the vast majority of which - the Greek Cypriots.


  16.  Varosha was never part of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.  And although it is considered neutral territory, the Turks refused to hand over vacant city under the control of UN peacekeeping forces.


  17.  The Turkish position on the border of Varosha.  The soldier followed closely so that no one climbed over the fence.  They say if you get caught in the closed area, it will cost you 500 euros.


  18.  Although you can easily climb over the fence, which many do.


  19.  border.


  20.  The fence on the beach.  On the one hand, tourists swim and sunbathe on the other 40 years of silence.


  21.  Left abandoned hotels, and blue on the right is valid.  There I lived.  A great hotel.


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  25.  The photographs on the Internet, you can see what's going on in the abandoned houses.  I myself, unfortunately, did not dare to climb far as it was only a few hours before the aircraft could not take the risk.

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  27.  Abandoned church.


  28.  On one side of the fence of barbed wire - home of the Turkish Cypriots and the parked cars along sidewalks, on the other side - a rusty fence, behind which are seen collapsing buildings.  It is clear that the fence does not become an obstacle for those who wish to penetrate the dead city.


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  33.  They say that the city remains a lot of old cars.  This is probably true.


  34.  They stand at the border.


  35.  Some Turks pulled out of closed areas and restored.


  36.  The old gas station.


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  38.  Tractor.


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  Every few years, hope for the return of its residents came to life, but the parties had still not come to a compromise that would suit both communities.  Varosha has become a bargaining chip in relations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots.  Recently, the leader of the Turkish Cypriots offered Varosha back.  Then do not agree the Greek Cypriots.  Now they are ready to pick up Varosha, but the Turkish Cypriots demand in exchange for a ghost town permit to conduct direct trade with all EU member states.

  During his first press conference, the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Mehmet Ali Talat told reporters that he was ready to return Varosha in exchange for the lifting of the embargo from the northern territories.  However, the proposal was rejected.  Talat suggested to return the ghost town under the control of the Greek-Cypriots, provided the opening of sea and air borders of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of world public opinion of Northern Cyprus.

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Abandoned airport of Nicosia

  Nicosia International Airport abandoned for nearly 40 years.  He worked for only 6 years old.  In 1974, Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, since the airport is directly in the buffer zone of the United Nations, which separates the Turkish territory from the Greek area of ​​Cyprus.



  01.  The airport was opened on March 27, 1968.  It was designed by German company Dorch-Gehrmann.  Half of the money for construction has given the United Kingdom.


  02.  The airport was designed for simultaneous servicing 800 passengers and 11 aircraft.


  03.  Posleydny plane flew away again in 1977.  It's been three Cypriot plane that remained here since '74.  One of them is now in the Imperial War Museum in London.


  04.  The airport does not work, since 1974, and currently is under the control of troops UNFICYP, and serves as the headquarters of the force.  July 20, 1974, two empty airliner Airlines Cyprus were destroyed on the ground by Turkish Air Force.


  05.  July 22, 1974 20 Greek aircraft type Nord Noratlas and 10 types of aircraft C-47 Dakotas of the 354 th Transport Squadron "Pegasus", was asked to carry the Greek unit of commando troops to protect the airport from the Nicosia Turkish invasion forces.  This operation was codenamed Operation NIKI (victory).  But eventually, the airport could not defend.


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  07.  Hangar.


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  09.  Entrance to the building of the airport.


  10.  This is a corridor along which were arrived passengers to Cyprus.


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  12.  Everything is slowly being destroyed.


  13.  Inside, all filled up with a thick layer of bird shit.


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  15.  For 40 years the birds have managed to zasrat the entire airport.  Some places just do not go through.


  16.  And before departure passengers are waiting ...


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  21.  Passport control.


  22.  Buffet.


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  25.  One of the aircraft, which was damaged in the fighting and could not fly away.

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26.  Hawker Siddeley HS 121 Trident - British aircraft for lines of small and medium-haul.  Production totaled 117 aircraft in five versions.  The aircraft was equipped with very advanced for its time, avionics, and became the first airliner that can carry out a fully automatic landing.


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  Once that plane flew!  Picture taken six weeks before the war.


  28.  In 1977, British engineers have stripped him of all valuable equipment.


  29.  Since then, he is on an eternal parking lot, surrounded by barbed wire.


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  31.  Shop looted.


  32.  Everything of value was taken away.


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  35.  There was a lounge for business class passengers.


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  37.  Toilet.


  38.  Cockpit.


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  41.  At the other end of the airport is another aircraft.  Avro Shackleton MR.3, serial XF700, Royal Air Force bomber.  In 1962, due to the failure of hydraulic systems has not released the chassis and mounted on the belly.  No one was killed, but acknowledged the repair uneconomic.


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  Thank you very much   boeing for their help in organizing the shooting!  His report is here: http://boeing.livejournal.com/145024.ht ML

cik_sssara

yeke ni?? ingat kan dalam citer je..

qislea

cantikla tempat ni...kenapa ditinggalkan cenggitu je....

stryder_cats

knp kosong mcm tu je.. misterinya

HangPC2

ada dicerita diatas.............

abgsedapmalam

kerana telah di jajah turki...

mala0n

ni translate ke english, dari bahasa apa...nway, good info! agak seram tgk dlm rumah yg kena tinggal tu. mesti byk brg antik hehe.

aluvium

sungguh satu pembaziran...

ratuiphone

hishh..tak sangka..selalu tgk benda cam nie kat national geo or history channel..

rose_liz

cantiknya kawasan tuuu...

KimoraHakim

Ya Allah sayangnya..satu pembaziran....ye la Turki nak bangun kan tempat tu tak boleh kot?

  14.  In February 1997 the government of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to protest against the intention of the Republic of Cyprus to buy Russian-made anti-missile systems threatened to settle Varosha abandoned by settlers from mainland Turkey.

Sayangkan? disebabkan perang/political war, ramai yang menjadi mangsa..even tempat pelancongan..

kivio

Ya Allah sayangnya terbiar cenggitu.....Sedih pulak tengok lame2.....

Kalau orang yg pernah pegi situ tengok balik gambar2 nie, sure nanes...
Nostalgic babe...

zakutaki91

wow! x sangka. bandar besar pulak tu.

dauswq

greek ngan turkey susah nak baik sbb dr dulu lagi diorg asyik bergaduh..

dr zmn byzantine empires lagi...

meya

Cantik tempat nih.

Tergesa-gesa sungguh diorang dipaksa tinggalkan tempat nih, macam-macam ditinggalkan.

Perang...membazir betul!

kwangsoo

tetiba teringat citer silent hill

leylapple

Ya Allah sayangnya..satu pembaziran....ye la Turki nak bangun kan tempat tu tak boleh kot?



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KimoraHakim Post at 19-3-2012 21:26

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