The ironman of travel Yoshimasa Ikeuchi

Inside the mosque

Restaurant

At a commercial center event

Famagusta's Crumbling Hotel

Yellow post

Commercial center from 1000 years ago

Mosque carpet

Church built in 1326, now a mosque

Tourists looking at South Cyprus from the Northern Cyprus border

White flag is Northern Cyprus

As I heard from the story, the UN peacekeepers at the border are very relaxed.

For customs clearance, the officer who got on the bus checked each person, and it took less than 10 minutes during that time.

Thanks to South's accession to the EU, it has become free.
Until then, transportation in Northern Cyprus had to go through Turkey.
I crossed the border and visited Famagusta on the north Nicosia and the east coast.

 In 1974, a coup of Greek military intervention occurred,
and Turkish troops dispatched troops to northern
Cyprus and declared independence as
"Federal Turkish Residents of Cyprus".

Then in November 1983, northern Turkey was born as the
"Northern Cyprus-Turkey Republic".
 But this country is not recognized anywhere in the world.
Although only recognized in Turkey,
the national flag is the inverted red and white of the Turkish flag.

It was a British colony until independence in 1960.

Since it is a transportation hub in the Mediterranean, a conflict occurred in 1963 due to a disagreement between Turkish and Greek residents and constitutional amendment under the control of various countries, and the United Nations peacekeeping forces are still stationed at the border.

The church and Mustapasha Mosque 2000 years ago
feel the age.

The exterior is a French Gothic architecture,
but the inside is a mosque with carpet.

In the olden days, the town of Famagusta
was the center of economy and tourism.

Aiming for a resort area, but frustrated on the way,
the devastated townscape is in the
middle of construction It hurts my heart to see it in ruins.