North ruling party changes name – slightly

The YDP, one of the three political parties which make up the north’s ruling coalition, has changed its name following a meeting of its party congress.

The party’s name has been changed from the “Yeniden Dogus Partisi”, Turkish for the “rebirth party”, to the “Yeni Dogus Partisi”, Turkish for the “new birth party”. Its commonly used abbreviation, “YDP”, will thus remain unchanged.

The new name is now the same as that of the original YDP, a party which was founded in the 1980s...