Would-be candidates for this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election may need to amass 1,500 signatures to get their name on the ballot , after the north’s ruling coalition put a bill requiring it for consultation on Monday.
The bill, which was proposed by ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli, appeared in the north’s official gazette, with a 20-day consultation period underway before it may be debated in the north’s ‘parliament’.
Arikli had
