Last summer Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots opened up the ghost town of Varosha, a suburb of Famagusta, fenced off and uninhabited since the bloody division of the island in 1974. In this podcast, Mete Hatay, senior researcher at the PRIO Cyprus Center, provides interesting background information to the ghost town and discusses the political implications of the opening as well as ways forward.

Varosha

An EU member state in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa; this is Cyprus in a nutshell. 
The FES Cyprus Podcast gives you an insight in the work of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and its stakeholders in Cyprus, a country which is far more than a divided island. 
Tune in and learn more about a state with a turbulent past and an eventful present.

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An EU member state in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa; this is Cyprus in a nutshell. The FES Cyprus Podcast gives you an insight in the work of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and its stakeholders in Cyprus, a country which is far more than a divided island. Tune in and learn more about a state with a turbulent past and an eventful present.

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