Ancient Kyrenia, tucked into the north coast of Cyprus, was once one of the most idyllic small-boat harbors and vacation spots in the eastern Mediterranean. But last week, reported TIME Correspondent William Marmon after a revisit to the place where he had vacationed in the past and more recently hunkered down during the Turkish invasion, Kyrenia was like a charnel house. Bloated human bodies rotted in back alleys; livestock and chickens were dying of starvation; meats and produce were putrefying in the summer sun because shelling and gunfire had cut off electricity. From a happy harbor Kyrenia had disintegrated into a...
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