Turkish Cypriot doctors go on strike

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday went on a full-day strike, citing a laundry list of shortcomings on the part of the north’s ruling coalition, and saying that health services in then north are at present “unable to meet demand”.

Members of doctors’ trade unions gathered outside northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital on Friday afternoon, with Cyprus Turkish doctors’ trade union (Tip-Is) leader Ozlem Gurkut making a speech.

She complained that the ‘health ministry’s’...