Eerie images have offered a glimpse inside an abandoned airport which has been empty for nearly five decades – with the terminals and planes left to rot. Nicosia International Airport, once the shining gateway to Cyprus, now lies silent and deserted, a ghostly monument to a devastating conflict that shattered the island. Built originally in the 1930s, the site began its life as an RAF station before growing into the island’s main civilian airport. Following a Turkish invasion in 1974, the