Half of it they used and half of it they had abandoned, so you could see through the two layers of brick to the outside. The floors you couldn't step on because you might fall through," she recalls.

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After Turkey invaded and occupied the northern half of the island, Varosha was caught in the middle and abandoned. From a population high of 39,000, only 226 live there today.