Frozen In Time: The Cyprus buffer zone

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  A cafe sign is seen at the abandoned Nicosia International Airport.

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  The passenger departure lounge.

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  A sign is seen through barbed wire at the airport.

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  Immigration counters.

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  Decades-old advertising billboards.

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  A Cyprus Airways passenger jet stands in the abandoned Nicosia International Airport.

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  Cars sit abandoned in a former shopping centre.

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  Paw prints are seen in dust on the bonnet of an abandoned car.

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  Old televisions found and collected by soldiers.

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  Photographic slides found and collected by soldiers in an abandoned commercial area.

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  Objects found and collected by soldiers.

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  Coca-Cola and Pepsi bottles gather dust at a former cafe.

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  Its kitchen lies in ruins.

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Greek and Turkish Cypriots have lived estranged for decades. A power-sharing government crumbled soon after independence from Britain in 1960 and the island has been divided since a Greek Cypriot coup was followed by a Turkish invasion of the north in 1974. Four decades on, a United Nations-controlled buffer zone splits Cyprus east to west, with Cyprus’s ethnic Greeks living in the south, and its Turks in the north. The buffer zone still contains crumbling relics of times gone by - abandoned houses, businesses and even an airport.