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Turkish Cypriot demonstrators confront police preventing them from crossing into the Internationally recognized southern part of ethnically divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 8, 2020. Demonstrators staged another protest against a decision by the Cyprus government to temporarily shut four of the nine crossing points along a United Nations controlled buffer zone that separates the south from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north. The Cypriot government says it shut the crossing points to better check for potential coronavirus carriers. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Turkish Cypriot demonstrators confront police preventing them from crossing into the Internationally recognized southern part of ethnically divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 8, 2020. Demonstrators staged another protest against a decision by the Cyprus government to temporarily shut four of the nine crossing points along a United Nations controlled buffer zone that separates the south from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north. The Cypriot government says it shu…

March 7, 2020

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Cyprus police pepper spray protesters at shut crossing point
March 7, 2020 12:13 p.m.

Cyprus police pepper spray protesters at shut crossing point

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus riot police used pepper spray on Saturday to thwart Turkish Cypriot protesters trying to shove their way through a barricaded crossing point in the heart of the ethnically divided island nation's capital.