Journalists gather at north police HQ demanding protection for under-threat colleague

A selection of Turkish Cypriot journalists gathered at the north’s police headquarters on Thursday morning to demand bolstered protection for Aysemden Akin, who received death threats after publishing a series of articles in which an interviewee had made allegations of a deep money-laundering and smuggling network based in Cyprus involving some of the most powerful men in Turkey .

Akin had found herself at loggerheads with the Turkish Cypriot police earlier