Kokkina (Greek: Κόκκινα; Turkish: Erenköy; Erenkoy) is the only semi-exclave of the partially recognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Official data on the exact area of ​​the village is not published, but the estimated area of ​​​​the exclave according to the scale of the available maps is about 2.5 km² (about 2.5 km long and about 0.5 km wide); approximately the same territory is occupied by the UN buffer zone around the exclave, separating it from the Greek Cypriot territory. Administratively, Kokkina is part of the Guzelyurt district.

In the north, the coastline of the exclave is washed by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. From the main array of the TRNC, located in the east, it is separated by a strip 7 km wide, on which the Greek Cypriot village of Pyrgos is located. The formation of Kokkina as a Turkish-Cypriot exclave occurred as a result of a long Greek-Turkish confrontation in 1963-1975, when the Turkish population of the northwestern part of Cyprus was squeezed into the narrow coastal strip of Kokkina, where they could hold out under the protection of artillery and the fleet of the Turkish Republic, which intervened during the conflict from the north.

Population
The preservation of Turkish control over this village was largely due to the fact that, according to all censuses between 1891 and 1960, the population of Kokkina (which means “red” in Greek) was exclusively Turkish-speaking Muslims. In 1971, 677 Muslims were registered in the exclave, of which about 400 were refugees from neighboring villages. In November 1976, they were all resettled on the Karpaz Peninsula in the settlement of Yeni-Erenkoy, where they and their descendants still live. In Kokkina itself, which the Turkish authorities have given a new name to Erenköy (in the translation from the Turkish “last village”), there is no civilian population, but there is a small military garrison of the Turkish armed forces with several checkpoints.