Tatar meets political party leaders ahead of New York meeting

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday held meetings with the leaders of five political parties ahead of this week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to begin in New York on Wednesday.

He first held meetings with the leaders of three of the four parties represented in the north’s ‘parliament’, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel of the UBP, ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu, and opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman, before holding separate meetings with TDP leader Zeki Celer and HP leader Kudret Ozersay.