North’s ruling coalition naturalises 124 people hours before pre-election cutoff

The north’s ruling coalition late on Friday night naturalised 124 people as ‘TRNC’ citizens, thus making them eligible to vote in this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election , hours before the pre-election cutoff point.

From 11.59pm on Saturday, the north will formally enter a “pre-election period”, with rules in place dictating what public institutions can and cannot do, all of which have been put in place with the aim of