Kokkina Exclave

Kokkina Exclave

Kokkina (Greek: Κόκκινα, Turkish: Erenköy) is a village in Cyprus, administered by the internationally unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It was one of the Turkish Cypriot enclaves prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. It is hemmed in on three sides by mountainous territory to the Greek part of the island, with the Mediterranean sea (Morphou Bay) on its northern flank. The exclave sits several kilometres away from the mainland of the TRNC and is a place which has special symbolic significance for the Cypriots because of the events of August 1964.