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Negotiating a Ghost Town: Varosha, Erdogan’s Bargaining Chip

"My mother had to leave Famagusta overnight when she was nineteen years old," a Greek Cypriot journalist told me. "She has not seen her home since." The story refers to Varosha, once a glamorous seaside quarter in Northern Cyprus — now abandoned and strategically used by Turkey as a geopolitical bargaining chip.

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