Green Party honours Turkish Cypriot doctor Ihsan Ali

The Green Party on Thursday laid a wreath at a monument to Turkish Cypriot doctor and pro-Cypriot unity activist Ihsan Ali, on the eve of the 46th anniversary of his death.

Ali was born in the Paphos district village of Vretsia in 1904 and studied medicine in Switzerland, before returning to Cyprus and opening a medical practice in Paphos in 1934.

While on the island, he opposed nationalist elements in both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, arguing instead for “peaceful coexistence”...