North’s independent ‘MPs’ endorse Erhurman for election

The two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ who sit as independents have endorsed opposition candidate Tufan Erhurman’s candidacy for this October’s Turkish Cypriot leader.

Aysegul Baybars and Jale Refik Rogers, who were both elected as part of former chief negotiator Kudret Ozersay’s HP and left the party when he resigned from ‘parliament’ in 2022, jointly announced their endorsement of Erhurman alongside Gulsah Sanver Manavoglu, who was an ‘MP’ for the HP between 2018 and 2022.

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