Inside the abandoned Nicosia International Airport
By AFP
29 May 2021 |
3:48 pm
A look inside the abandoned Nicosia International Airport in the UN-protected zone of the divided Cypriot capital, 47 years after the Turkish invasion of the northern third of the east Mediterranean island.
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