North ‘PM’ Ustel undergoes abdominal surgery

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel underwent abdominal surgery on Saturday after having been admitted to hospital with complaints of “severe abdominal pain” on Friday.

Doctors at the private Near East hospital on the outskirts of northern Nicosia, where Ustel is being treated, explained that he had undergone an “emergency endoscopic examination” on Friday evening which produced “no findings which would explain his complaints”.

As such, he then underwent an ultrasound scan...