Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday.
Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August as “the month of the Turks”, and said, “the month of August is as if it were created for our nation”.
“I do not know whether almighty God makes a distinction between his months and days, but the month of August seems to have been created for our nation,” he said.
He began by referencing August 30...