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[bill cobbett]

It needs to be raized to the ground, clear and start again. The costs to be met by the US/UK and Turkey.

It needs to be done by an outside team to avoid the original owners the heart ache of seeing their memories trashed. Bless them

simple really.

Why do we say Raized to the ground. It should be flattened to the ground. I'll have you know most of the land in Varosha is Efkaf land.
We'll be glad to rent it to you.

Curiously, well mean outrageously curiously ..... when was researching the recent history of the Dome Hotel, Kyrenia, discovered that there was a similarly laughable Evinalaf claim there. The equally dodgy claim is that the present Trespasser, as ever a senior member of the Illegal Regime, acquired the Dome through a tenancy from Effofgav. .....

[EricSeans]

Anything near the seafront seems pretty crumbly but when you get out a bit to the residential areas, some of these houses are pretty intact (even down to the Sweet and Partridge Family posters in bedrooms ) Very dusty and stuff strewn about, but many are completely shuttered and wind/watertight. The Turks forced the front doors while looting from 1974-76 but usually closed them after. So with luck one day people can get back to their houses and patch them up. A bit of gardening will be needed - often hard to tell where the garden ends and the street begins.

[georgios100]

Anything near the seafront seems pretty crumbly but when you get out a bit to the residential areas, some of these houses are pretty intact (even down to the Sweet and Partridge Family posters in bedrooms ) Very dusty and stuff strewn about, but many are completely shuttered and wind/watertight. The Turks forced the front doors while looting from 1974-76 but usually closed them after. So with luck one day people can get back to their houses and patch them up. A bit of gardening will be needed - often hard to tell where the garden ends and the street begins.

I would agree, near the seafront the damage is extensive due to the salt content in the air. According to the experts, coastline areas are considered within 12 KM from shore... which means almost the whole of the city!

Georgios100

My home is at Ploutonos & Platonos intersection, accross the street from the cemetery, 3-4 kms from the sea. Within the coastal radius... I'll have the dozer ready when the time comes, if I am still alive, damn it.

[bill cobbett]

Anything near the seafront seems pretty crumbly but when you get out a bit to the residential areas, some of these houses are pretty intact (even down to the Sweet and Partridge Family posters in bedrooms ) Very dusty and stuff strewn about, but many are completely shuttered and wind/watertight. The Turks forced the front doors while looting from 1974-76 but usually closed them after. So with luck one day people can get back to their houses and patch them up. A bit of gardening will be needed - often hard to tell where the garden ends and the street begins.

I would agree, near the seafront the damage is extensive due to the salt content in the air. According to the experts, coastline areas are considered within 12 KM from shore... which means almost the whole of the city!

Georgios100

My home is at Ploutonos & Platonos intersection, accross the street from the cemetery, 3-4 kms from the sea. Within the coastal radius... I'll have the dozer ready when the time comes, if I am still alive, damn it.

Have faith and hope brother/sister.

[Nikitas]

Steel reinforced concrete structures left with no maintenance for 35 years are no longer safe. The steel corrodes inside the concrete and the structure is weakened. Barring some landmark buildings the whole town wil lhave to be demolishsed and rebuilt. I would love to get the demolition contracts, they alone are worth a fortune.

Conervative estimates for the project are 5 billion Euro.

Rebuiliding is a chance to avoid the idiocies of the past, like building high rises on the beach. But I doubt that the bigshots of the island who own most of the beachfront would let it be done.

YFred, you need to read Thomson's account of Varosha in 1878 re evkaf and all that bullshit. Varosha was the undesirable swamp land, laden with malaria, which the ottoman conquerors left to the locals while they sat their fat arses in the Venetian built city of Famagusta. Not ones to actually build or crate anything the ottomans. Not when there is stuff available for the taking. So lay off this evkaf bullshit.

[Gasman]

Why do we say Raized to the ground. It should be flattened to the ground. I'll have you know most of the land in Varosha is Efkaf land. Wink
We'll be glad to rent it to you.

We don't say 'raized' to the ground, we say 'razed' to the ground. Razed meaning flatten, or level.

It's where the word 'razor' comes from. But it is commonly mis-spelt, along with other homophonic words.