Labour MP Afzal Khan has resigned as the UK’s trade envoy to Turkey following criticism of his visit last week to unrecognised northern Cyprus, the BBC reported on Saturday.
Khan, the MP for Manchester Rusholme, also met with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar – a move which the Cypriot government described as “absolutely condemnable and unacceptable”.
Khan told the BBC he paid for the trip himself and was visiting his
