Sunday’s Women’s High Jump finals at the Paris Olympics didn’t generate the result Buse Savaşkan had wanted, but for Turkish Cypriots she remains their hero. Thousands of people had expressed their pride and joy in her performance on social media ahead of and after Sunday’s final. Multiple watch parties had been organised in North Cyprus, […]
Turkish Cypriots will not return to the negotiating table until their sovereignty and equal status is recognised, Ersin Tatar, the President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, told reporters at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on Sunday. In an interview with French news agency AFP, President Tatar explained why he was against talks without a […]
Ersin Tatar became the first president of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) to be formally received by an Azerbaijani head of state. The Turkish Cypriot leader met with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the Zuğulba Presidential Palace in Baku earlier today, marking an historic upgrade in ties between the Turkish Cypriot state and […]
Turkiye reaffirmed its commitment to a two-state solution for Cyprus in a speech made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the United Nations in New York earlier this week. Referring to the sixtieth anniversary of the Cyprus Problem and the broad acceptance that a federation model settlement was no longer viable, President Erdoğan repeated his […]
The President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Ersin Tatar has urged the United States to accept the two-states policy he is advocating, which will “provide for a practical, fair and sustainable settlement not only for the two equal sides in Cyprus but also for the Eastern Mediterranean region.” The comments came during a […]
The President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Ersin Tatar attended this year’s Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) to commemorate the brave Turkish soldiers who came to the aid of Turkish Cypriots 49 years ago. Turkiye’s vital military intervention on 20 July, five days after by far-right Greek Cypriot nationalists staged a coup, […]
The president of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, Ersin Tatar was in London last week to meet with a host of British dignitaries and journalists to promote his two-state solution for Cyprus. Arriving in London on Monday, 27 March, President Tatar and his team quickly got down to business, attending a reception with journalists […]
Thursday saw President Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) come together with the newly elected Greek Cypriot leader, Nikos Christodoulides, in the buffer zone in the capital Lefkoşa / Nicosia. The meeting, which ran for nearly two hours, took place under the auspices of the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for […]
The two-state policy of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus continues to gain new ground. On Wednesday, 30 November, the TRNC President Ersin Tatar received the Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia, Badara Alieu Joof, in the TRNC White House in Lefkoşa. The official meeting, which included the display of the flags of […]
The Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) has been admitted to the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) as an observer member under its full constitutional name – a first in its 39-year history. The decision to accept the TRNC as an observer member was taken at the Samarkand Summit in Uzbekistan on Friday, 11 November […]
