"Cyprus: NATO’s Internal Cold War
By Michael Totten : BIO | 11 Jan 2006
If you live in the United States, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is not a place you are ever likely to see. Most visitors are middle class tourists from Europe -- Britain, mainly -- who buy cheap package vacations at tacky resorts on the beach. Cyprus is troubled by foreign occupation and ethnic division, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the coastal area where most tourists go. This region looks neither European nor Mediterranean, and has little feeling of identity, history, or place. Agia Napa, in particular, looks and feels like a gigantic outdoor fraternity house. It brings to mind people who drank to forget and have succeeded."
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