Cyprus, an Island Trying to Get to Know Each Other in Order to Overcome Division

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The first time the Turkish Cypriot Mehmetcan Soyluoglu realized that things did not have to be as they had until then told him in his native Cyprus was in 2003. He was 11 years old and, with his parents, made a long line to cross to the Greek side just as he opened the crossing points between Nicosia under Turkish domination where he lived — and he continues to live — and the Greek Cypriot. He wanted to know if the ice cream tasted different on …