Turkish Cypriot president meets with ex-leaders
Turkish Cypriot President Tufan Erhürman met with three of his four surviving predecessor, Mehmet Ali Talat, Mustafa Akıncı and Ersin Tatar, over the weekend, as diplomatic efforts continue both on the island and internationally to restart substantive negotiations on the issue.
No details were released about the content of the meetings. Erhürman’s office said only that a scheduled meeting with former leader Derviş Eroğlu was postponed due to the 88-year-old’s health problems.
The meetings came as U.N. envoy Maria Angela Holguin is set to hold talks in Brussels with European Union officials in the coming days.
Holguin has recently visited Ankara and Athens, where she met Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, following earlier meetings in Cyprus with Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Erhürman.
