Mixed-marriage Turkish Cypriot loses appeal for citizenship

A Turkish Cypriot born to a “mixed marriage” had his appeal against a denial of his Cypriot citizenship rejected by the Nicosia administrative court on Thursday.

The court upheld the 2007 cabinet decision made under late President Tassos Papadopoulos that children of mixed marriages cannot be made citizens of the Republic of Cyprus if one of their parents are Turkish nationals who entered and resided in the north after 1974.

The applicant had been born in the Kyrenia district in 1995...