#Ersin Tatar

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday marked the fifth anniversary of the death of his father Rustem Tatar, who was the Republic of Cyprus’ first auditor-general. “He was ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s defamation lawsuit against newspaper Yeniduzen was rejected by a court in northern Nicosia on Tuesday, with the court finding that the newspaper had ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar late on Wednesday night slammed accusations linking him to underworld dealings and alleging that he had taken illegal election campaign donations in cash as “...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and former Turkish Cypriot leaders Ersin Tatar and Mustafa Akinci on Wednesday offered their condolences following the death of George Vassiliou, who served as president ...

Controversial Turkish Sufi scholar Ahmet Unlu, colloquially known as ‘Cubbeli Ahmet’, on Thursday night said he regretted praying for Ersin Tatar in advance of October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday evaluated the landslide election defeat which saw him removed from office in October, saying that the Turkish Cypriot people had refused to ...

Outgoing Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday night lamented “internal party problems” within the three political parties which endorsed his re-election campaign after suffering a landslide defeat to pro-reunification ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was on Sunday reported to the police by the north’s supreme election council after allegedly breaking electoral law during a television appearance on Saturday ...

Former foreign minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis on Friday threw her support behind pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leadership candidate Tufan Erhurman ahead of Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. “Good luck, Tufan Erhurman! ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar admitted on Sunday evening that there had been “tension” at his meeting in New York with President Nikos Christodoulides and UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, but ...

Talks for a Cyprus settlement must resume from where they broke off at Crans Montana, was the message UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres conveyed to President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday said he does not “expect much” from his forthcoming tripartite meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and some of his high-profile supporters hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the United Nations general assembly, with Tatar describing it as “...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his opposition-backed election challenger Tufan Erhurman both held large rallies on Tuesday night as the Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer. Tatar’s rally ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman and former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci both accused the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel of misinformation on Thursday, after Ustel ...

Turkish Cypriot ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Hasan Tacoy on Monday urged the north’s electorate to choose incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar over his opposition-backed challenger Tufan Erhurman ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday told Turkish Cypriots to “not embarrass” influential late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash when the Turkish Cypriot leadership election takes place next month. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his challenger Tufan Erhurman both formally submitted their candidacies for next month’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections on Friday. Both men marked the submission ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman holds a four-point lead over incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of next month’s election, according to a poll released ...

UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin arrives in Cyprus on Thursday night for separate meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, ahead of a planned trilateral meeting ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night issued a 1,000-word statement – his second of this year’s election campaign so far – criticising efforts towards a federal solution to the ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel told members of his party the UBP who work in the north’s public sector to ensure that polling stations are staffed with supporters ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday night said President Nikos Christodoulides is using the matter of crossing points between the island’s two sides as “political blackmail”. He said ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman said that the policies being followed by incumbent Ersin Tatar are turning the north into an “open-air prison”. “There have been no ...