AP PHOTOS: Remnants of lives interrupted by war half a century ago captured in Cyprus’ buffer zone

NICOSIA, Cyprus — A rickety piano leans crookedly against a peeling apartment wall, pots and pans filled with dust rest on a stove that has seen much better days and a book, its pages turning yellow with time, lies open next to a rusty tin can; signs of homes, once teeming with life, but suddenly abandoned as they stand frozen in time. Utensils, a wash machine, a bottle of Cypriot beer, are seen in a kitchen inside of an abandoned apartment inside the war-torn UN buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, June 6, 2024. A book is seen next of a rusty tin can inside of an abandoned apartment inside the war-torn UN buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Utensils is seen in a kitchen inside of an abandoned apartment inside the war-torn UN buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Holes from bullets are seen in a wall inside of an abandoned apartment inside the war-torn UN buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 18, 2024.