Fact: Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is traveling to the Gambia ahead of the 15th Islamic summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to request support from member states to end the inhumane policies of isolation implemented by the Greek Cypriot leadership against the Turkish Cypriot people.
Fact: Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, believes that Varosha should be transformed into a free trade zone and a common living area for both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
UN Secretary-General Personal Envoy for Cyprus, Maria Holguin, will meet with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar next Wednesday.
Fact: Turkish Cypriots held a protest against corruption, demanding accountability for those responsible for corruption in the northern part of Cyprus.
Fact: The families of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed in the Isias hotel collapse traveled to Turkey ahead of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse.
– A referendum was held on April 24, 2004, to reunite Cyprus under the Annan plan.
– 65% of Turkish Cypriots voted in favor, while 76% of Greek Cypriots voted against the plan.
– The plan was never implemented, and Cyprus remains divided.
– The Greek Cypriot electorate rejected the specific solution offered in the plan.
– The current status quo encourages the Greek Cypriot side’s uncompromising attitude.
The 2023 US country report on human rights in Cyprus raised serious concerns over life-threatening conditions in prison in the north.
Fact: Tahsin Ertugruloglu refused to sign a Kofi Annan-backed proposal for a federal solution to the Cyprus problem at the EU summit in Copenhagen in 2002.
The majority Greek Cypriot population voted down the UN plan in the referendums held on April 24, 2004, with a turnout of 89.18% for Greek Cypriots and 87% for Turkish Cypriots.
Maria Angela Holguin, the United Nations Envoy, will return to Cyprus at the beginning of May. She will meet with President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss efforts to restart negotiations from where they were interrupted in Crans Montana in 2017. Ersin Tatar insists that her duties come to an end after six months since her appointment as UN Envoy.