Incirli announces candidacy to lead north opposition party
Sila Usar Incirli on Tuesday night became the first person to formally announce her candidacy to lead the north’s largest opposition political party, the centre-left CTP.
She made the ...
Erkut Sahali elected north opposition party CTP’s secretary-general
Erkut Sahali was on Tuesday night elected as secretary-general of the north’s largest opposition party the CTP, unseating Asim Akansoy.
At the first meeting of the party’s new ...
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North’s largest opposition party announces Erhurman as election candidate
Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday announced as the north’s largest opposition political party the CTP’s candidate for the forthcoming Turkish Cypriot leadership elections, which are set to take ...
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Parties react to ‘positive step’ of Geneva meeting
Cyprus’ political parties on Tuesday night reacted to the results of the two-day enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, with many choosing to characterise those results as a “positive step”.
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Opposition parties from both sides travel to New York
Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...
Erhurman to step down as CTP leader after elections
Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday said he will step down as the party’s leader after the Turkish Cypriot leadership elections which are set ...
A ‘love of loneliness’ marks demands for two-state solution in Cyprus
As the United Nations secretary-general’s personal envoy wrestles to break the seven-year standstill in the Cyprus negotiations, the Turkish Cypriot pro-solution camp seems to agree that the new process ...
Demetriou meets Turkish Cypriot parties and Akinci
House President Annita Demetriou on Wednesday met with delegations of two Turkish Cypriot political parties, the CTP and the TDP, as well as former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Akinci.
Demetriou’...
Cyprus hits back at ‘skyscrapers on stolen lands’
Arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer shakes up sales of Greek Cypriot properties in north
The arrest of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer in Italy over exploitation of dispossessed Greek Cypriot property ...
North’s ‘House speaker’ brands opposition traitors
The leaderships of north’s two largest political parties, the ruling UBP and opposition CTP, are to meet, after the CTP took offence to remarks made by ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu ...
North ‘government’ given jolt by CTP by-election win
The social-democratic CTP party’s candidate Sami Ozuslu won a surprise victory in the north’s ‘parliamentary’ by-election on Sunday.
Ozuslu won 44 per cent of the vote, beating conservative UBP ...
Akel working with T/C party to “fill gap in bicommunal relations”
The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) in the north said on Wednesday that it is collaborating with left-wing party Akel to breach the gap between the two communities created by Turkish ...
Row continues in north over help for Turkish earthquake victims
‘Parliament’ in the north descended into a shouting match on Tuesday after ‘Foreign Minister’ Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu was called a rude, disrespectful traitor over the ongoing row on the ...
Local elections in north jolt leadership
‘The ruling coalition has offended Turkish Cypriot voters’
Local elections in the northern part of Cyprus, branded as a competition between the “pro-Turkey and the pro-Europe,” and “pro-sovereignty and the ...
Turkish Cypriots gear up for Erdogan visit
The north is preparing for the visit next week of Recep Tayyip Erdogan but some Turkish Cypriot parties announced they would shun the special ‘parliament’ session the Turkish president plans ...