Tatar denies meeting Turkish ambassador over north’s ‘headscarf crisis’

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar late on Thursday night denied that the subject of a behind-closed-doors meeting he had held with Turkish ambassador Ali Murat Basceri and the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was the attempt to legalise the wearing of hijabs by schoolchildren.

Tatar, Basceri, Ustel, and ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu had attended a meeting at Tatar’s official residence in northern Nicosia on Friday evening, with rumours swiftly