Cyprus displays antiquities returned after being looted by art dealer

(Petros Karadjias/AP)

Cyprus has put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art dealer looted them from the ethnically divided island nation decades ago.

Aydin Dikmen took the artifacts from the country’s breakaway north in the years after Cyprus’s split in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup by supporters of union with Greece.