First Turkish Cypriot MEP envisions himself as division healer

Niyazi Kizilyurek says nothing like it has happened in ethnically divided Cyprus in 140 years: He is the first Turkish Cypriot elected to the European Parliament, and he was selected by a primarily Greek Cypriot electorate.
The fact that it's to a body representing the citizens of the European Union's 28 member states, he says, affords him the opportunity to reproduce the bloc's greatest achievement in his homeland - forging unity out of the ashes of war.
"I see Cyprus as the patrie [homeland] of all Cypriots and I feel myself responsible for all Cypriots," Kizilyurek told The Associated Press from his apartment in the southern, internationally recognized part of the capital, Nicosia.
Unlike other elections where Turkish Cypriots living in the breakaway northern part of the island aren't eligible to vote, the European parliament election is one single big vote for...