Nicosia, a capital straddling two cultures (via
AFP)
“A few steps take you from one culture to another,” said Vedia Izzet, a Turkish Cypriot, speaking of her daily trips between the Cypriot capital’s Turkish-controlled north and Greek Cypriot south. “It’s like walking through a film between two parallel space-time dimensions, as if the film were punctured…
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