The Players: Mehmet Ali Talat
Although he always had a rock-solid commitment to a settlement, Mehmet Ali Talat had the bad fortune when he was Turkish Cypriot leader to have...
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From victory to annexation
Impermissible blunders, including the selective acceptance of United Nations’ resolutions, has alienated the international community and made Turkey’s annexation of the north a real possibility...
Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minster’ resigns, Talat battles to form new ‘government’ (Updated)
Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ömer Kalyoncu handed in his resignation to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Tuesday morning a day after the coalition ‘government’...
Talat re-elected as party leader
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has been re-elected leader of the Republic Turkish Party-United Forces (CTP-BG) during a vote at the party congress...
History should temper any optimism
By Ingemar Lindahl Sometimes History makes unexpected turns. Who would have imagined in 2004, after the rejection of the UN plan for the solution of...
Cutting the umbilical cord
By Simon Bahceli There is a tangible feeling that something has changed in the northern part of Cyprus. Hope has returned for the first...
Big losses for Talat’s party in local poll
Turkish Cypriots changed 15 of their 28 ‘mayors’ in local elections on Sunday in a set of results that left some of the parties reeling....
Former top cop sues president
By George Psyllides THE former chief of police Michalakis Papageorgiou has appealed against his dismissal and is suing the president because he sacked him without...
AG appeals ELAM suspects’ release
The attorney-general has filed an appeal against the release of three members of far right extremist group ELAM who were arrested in connection with a...
Extremist groups could ‘crucify the island’
EXTREME nationalism could mean the end of reunification talks, former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Monday, days after Greek Cypriot neo-Nazi group...
Archbishop calls for ELAM to be stripped of party status
By Elias Hazou ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos has denounced the violence committed by ELAM last week, and has moreover called on the Attorney-general to explore whether there...
New chief vows zero tolerance
By Elias Hazou EVEN as the new police chief took the oath of office yesterday, his hastily dispatched predecessor insisted that he was being scapegoated...
Elam suspects released by the court
Three members of far-right group ELAM were on Friday released from custody after the court denied a police request that the suspects be remanded over the...
Police chief fired after ELAM incident (updated: full details)
By Constantinos Psillides POLICE Chief Michalis Papageorgiou was given the sack on Thursday in the wake of a violent protest by far-right ELAM at an...
Downer comes to say farewell
By Staff Reporter OUTGOING UN Special Envoy Alexander Downer was in Cyprus on Wednesday to say his farewells after announcing his resignation last month. Downer...
CMP donation
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) yesterday thanked the Turkish Cypriot community for a donation of US$ 50,000 made last Friday. According to...
Music ‘a metaphor for cooperation and harmony’
FORMER President George Vassiliou and former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat were among those who attended a violin and piano recital with Johannes Fleischmann...
Future without a solution is grim
By Stefanos Evripidou THE FUTURE of Cyprus without a solution is pretty grim, George Vassiliou and Mehmet Ali Talat told a crowded audience of Greek...