Nicosia weighs a pedestrian-first core
Traffic around the walled city and Mehmet Akif is back on the municipal table.
The last divided capital: walls, the buffer zone, and a two-sided memory.

Nicosia is the administrative heart of Northern Cyprus. The walled city, Selimiye and the buffer zone make the island’s political compact visible at street level. Ledra and Lokmacı are everyday thresholds.
Traffic around the walled city and Mehmet Akif is back on the municipal table.
Photography and oral history share Nicosia’s busiest courtyard this month.