
Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday announced as the north’s largest opposition political party the CTP’s candidate for the forthcoming Turkish Cypriot leadership elections , which are set to take place in October.
Erhurman, who has led the party since 2016 and served as the north’s ‘prime minister’ between 2018 and 2019, will stand against incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, who was himself endorsed by the north’s largest political party